On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:05:07 +0100, Peter Körner <osm-li...@mazdermind.de> wrote: >> A better data format for >> rendering would contain only point of interest nodes, with ways >> represented as polylines of points, with no need for the client to look >> up >> the coordinates of the way's constituent nodes by ID. > > What you're talking for is a xml/json frontend for a postgis-db. The > resolving of node coordinates is done by osm2pgsql. > > Peter
Looks interesting but only for high zoom-levels. What queries can be supported to e.g. render a map of the world? That would at least require all coastlines but not in full resolution. Marcus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
