joto left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#5973)
> It seems there were good reasons to introduce it for the XML format back in
> the days.
I don't think too much thought went into that decision at that time. It
probably simply seemed a reasonable way to do things and it totally do
joto left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#5973)
I could never understand why there are the `create`, `modify`, and `delete`
actions in the osmChange format, or why there is an osmChange format at all.
Why not use the format that the history file uses: A version 1 is a basically a
