Another reason not to go for 1 is the limit they've been talking about on the main list (in 0.6) for points in a way. I think some of the suburb borders could easily hit that limit.
2009/2/16 Franc Carter <franc.car...@gmail.com>: > > The first question that I think we need to answer is, how do we represent > the > data in OSM, there appears to be 3 options:- > > 1. Closed ways > 2. Relations > 3. Borders with a left/right tag > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au