I’m not convinced that the state of the art in GIS databases has appropriate answers. The OSM community, as ever, creates new cart-tracks across well-paved spaces. The debate is too heated for any but the really committed to follow, the tracks become effaced in debate, but perhaps they’re leading somewhere new. Or as the New Data Model paper puts it, Complexity does not mean that it has to be more complicated.
jo thinks the new OSM data model is more RDF-like, which of course she approves of