[OSM-dev] Area support

[Frederik Ramm]

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