[OSM-talk] Converting buildings from nodes to ways

[Anthony]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, this still needs a change in the database schema and the API
> because currently there's no such attribute that the editors could
> use.

If you're going to change the database schema, I vote for just making
IDs unique across all object types.  Dealing with enums in
relation_members makes constructing efficient joins such a pain.