[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Capabilities call and versioning (#2162)

[Bryan Housel]

> Does anything (e.g. editors) actually use the current version information anyway? Do requests for capabilities generally use the versioned or unversioned calls?

iD currently calls `api/capabilities` (unversioned) but we should change this.

It makes more sense to me to just drop the unversioned endpoint and have separate resources for:
* `api/0.6/capabilities`
* `api/0.7/capabilities`

> Should we instead have an api/versions call that just indicates supported versions, and clients can then call api/X/capabilities for the one they want to use? 

seems fine 👍 

> Should we remove the version information from api/X/capabilities since it's not really a capability of that version of the API?

I agree it can be removed, I never even noticed it was there..



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