[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql patch for nested relations

[Sven Geggus]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> If we start coding special cases into osm2pgsql, we have to code the same
> special cases into lots of other applications too.

AFAIK osm2pgsql currently supports two types of relations:
type=route amd type=multipolygon.

Both of them _are_ special cases.

You are right that relation support should be implemented in a more generic
way, but currently this is simply not the case anyway.

Sven

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