2009/9/29 Ed Avis <[email protected]>:
> A manual redirect tag would never work - about 1% of contributors would bother
> to add it, and even then messing with id numbers by hand is error-prone.
> Rather, if an object is marked as deleted, return its last position and 
> perhaps
> the changeset id that deleted it.  Then with only a small amount of manual 
> effort
> somebody can track down the replacement object.

Wouldn't flickr just download the info once and then cache it on their systems?

That's what they do with OSM maps at least.

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