[Imports] Donut Holed Polygons

[Serge Wroclawski]

I have a question about imports that seems simple, but is confounding
me.

I'm working on the DC data, and specifically parking lots. They're
polygons, some of which have donut holes in them.

When I run osm-to-shp against the shapefiles, the resulting shape for
these polygons is a multi-polygon with the outer polygon, and the
inner-polygons.

The tags for the original is on the multi-polygon (not any of the
member polygons).

A few questions:

1) Is this right, or is there some other expected result?

2) Should the tags for the feature I care about be on the
multi-polygon or the outer polygon?

3) In most of these cases, I don't know what the donut hole spaces
are. Is there a way to represent this as a null space, possibly to
fill in later?

Thanks,

- Serge