[OSM-talk] Converting buildings from nodes to ways

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 29 December 2010 13:47, Dave F. <davefox en madasafish.com> wrote:
> On 23/12/2010 12:10, Laurence Penney wrote:
>>
>> I've been 'exploding' several building nodes into ways,
>
> City centres maps look so much better with polygon ways, don't they?
>
> To encourage this practice it would be useful if the R (replicate) key in
> Potlatch worked from nodes to ways. It could also copy the history.

There's no way in the current database schema to copy history from
nodes to ways.

Cheers