Hi Jukka,
Thank you again for the explanation and information about GDAL history!!
> If I understand right you consider that instead of having now in the
> multipolygon layer relation_id as osm_id and way_id as osm_way_id it would be
> better to have way_id as osm_id and relation_id as
: [gdal-dev] osm_id vs osm_way_id?
Hi Jukka,
As always thank you for the useful share of knowledge!!
> IDs are unique only for nodes/ways/relations but not across the elements. I
do not think that renaming osm_id into relation_id (and probably osm_id of
points into node_id, or?) and osm_way
georges wrote
> Hello,
> I am converting an .osm file to shapefile, and there is one thing that I
> do not understand:
>
> What is the difference between: osm_id and osm_way_id fields (keys)?
>
> They are defined in osmconf.ini file, but only for [multipolygons].
> Here is an explanation from