Key:history

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Description
In the past added automatically by some editors, for objects that have been reverted. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: annotations
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should not be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Status: deprecated

This tag was first used by Potlatch 1 for the function to undelete and retrieve older version of ways.

Typical values are history=Retrieved from v1, history=Retrieved from v2, history=Retrieved from v3 etc.

Not to be confused with historic=* - for mapping historic places and buildings.

See bot edit that removed this tag as an ancient and useless.

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