[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] API: `/api/0.6/map` that returns intersecting ways (Issue #6678)

[Tobias]

tordans created an issue (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6678)


This request is based on https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/8991#issuecomment-3711264411

**The use case is:** 
iD loads data using [`/maps`](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Retrieving_map_data_by_bounding_box:_GET_/api/0.6/map). However, the API only returns ways when there is at least one node in the given bbox.

For cases like https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/8991#issuecomment-3711264411 this can lead to a wrong map view. In addition, iD has no way of knowing that data is missing or help the use to resolve the issue.

[The API docs](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Retrieving_map_data_by_bounding_box:_GET_/api/0.6/map) document this behavior:
> All ways that reference at least one node that is inside a given bounding box, any relations that reference them [the ways], and any nodes outside the bounding box that the ways may reference.

I suggest we use this issue to talk about how we can resolve this.
Ideally, we will find a way to change this as part of API v0.6.

One way would be to find a way to include all intersecting ways in the data. Personally I would not consider this a breaking change but more like a bug fix which means we could change it as part of v0.6. 
Does anyone see data users that would rely on this feature as a feature (AKA they would have issues with this bug fix)?

Alternatively we could add a new endpoint or add a param to the existing endpoint that changes the current behaviors.


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