to make it easier to support undeleting and pre-upload conflict checking, it has been suggested that an API call (a "proper" API call, not AMF!) be written to allow the fetching of deleted items in a certain area.
rather than write a different API call, i'm suggesting that the map call be modified to have an additional optional parameter "?visible=(true|false|both)", where true is the default, which controls whether visible items are returned, invisible ones, or both visible and invisible. here are the proposed changes to the effects of the call: 1) visible parameter not provided, or ?visible=true, or ?visible != (false|both): same effects as previous versions of the map call: only visible nodes in the bbox or which share a visible way with those in the bbox are returned along with those visible ways and any visible relation which contains any of those nodes or ways. 2) visible=false: finds all non-visible nodes within the bbox, returning those and any non-visible ways which use them and any non-visible relations which use either the ways or nodes. non-visible items are returned as open XML elements with no tags, way nodes or relation members. 3) visible=both: finds all nodes in the bbox, returning those, plus any shared by ways (visible or not), plus those ways and relations (visible or not) which use any of those nodes or ways. comments, please :-) cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
