[OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

[Anthony]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/25 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>
>>
>> I didn't know that was up for debate.  I thought the consensus was
>> that they should not only share nodes, but they should share ways as
>> well.
>
> no, I don't think that's a good idea as the resulting multipolygons make the
> situation unnecessarily complicated.
>
Wow.  I hope you're in the minority on that one, because now that I
discovered multipolygon relations there's no way I'm going back to
mapping the exact same line three times (e.g. to represent a park
adjacent to a residential area separated by a fence).