Hi, I'm revisiting some of my old OSM reader/writer code and I'm wondering about the "visible" attribute for OSM XML tags. Looking at the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_Primitives I now understand it specifies whether the element is actually present in the database, but I'm wondering if it is really necessary for this attribute to be compulsory (if the DTD is correct: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6/DTD)?
Most of the OSM XML usage is for current and not historic data, so visible="true" could be implied. Now it only bloats the resulting XML. Just a thought. Regards, Igor -- http://igorbrejc.net _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
