[OSM-talk] Converting buildings from nodes to ways

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Laurence Penney <lorp at lorp.org> wrote:
> * Is there a tagging convention to record node->way conversion, i.e. what was this way's predecessor_node?

I think it would be worthwhile to use relations here, to also address
the general issue of different representations of the same thing (eg,
train line vs individual train tracks, focal point of an area rather
than just its centroid, entrances etc). Nothing has yet been proposed
though.

Steve