Replace the "multipolygon" (and its 'relation') attribute with "area".

One of the biggest challenges to the 'Area' concept is OSM's method of treating nodes and ways - polygons simply do not enter into the equation in ...

dependancies" and "relations

Another thing that slowed me down was OSM's use of 'relations' for... most everything. Relations are used for drawing shapes (mainly multipolygons)...

Object-oriented mapping?

OSM's learning curve is long indeed - its documentation is too disperse and hard to find (you have to know what you are looking for (wiki) before y...

Rethinking OSM tagging/positioning - from an OSM layman point of view

Hello, I've been using OSM since around a month now, and would like to make a few suggestions, and please feel free to make any clarifications if ...