openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website — pull request #51 by gravitystorm (2012-07-09 12:30:01+00:00)
Title: Don't show coordinates for deleted nodes.

We shouldn't show the coordinates of deleted nodes, since we don't show the 'geometries' of deleted ways or relations, nor the tags of any deleted object.

Additionally, the coordinates of a deleted version are actually the coordinates of the previous visible version, so in themselves contain no useful information. However, they instead provide a mechanism for viewing redacted information.

In future the lat/lon attributes of deleted nodes could be removed, but for now simply set them as "0"/"0" for clients who expect them to be there.

See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rebuild/2012-July/000308.html for more context.