gerade zufällig hier gefunden:

“We are already talking about having a dedicated area datatype in API 0.7. This may well provide a native replacement for the current multipolygon relations, among other things (after all, relations are meant for metadata, not geometry; using relations for multipolygons is an ugly hack).”

Da erscheint die ganze Sache auf einmal in einem anderen Licht.

Gruss
Walter