Hi, > No, we could continue to use multipolygon relations for that. > > I just wanted to point out that our existing primitives are "simple" ones: no > compound objects, no holes, only one single coherent object. The new area > primitive would be different from that (which of course is not necessarily an > argument against it).
You are right, but proponents of a proper area type also rightly say that it is slightly inelegant to use relations on an upper level (combining ways into routes etc.) on one hand and on a very basic geometry level (putting holes into areas) on the other hand. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
