Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Körner
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

Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread marcus.wolschon
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

Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Körner
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. This is only true for the coastlines, as mapnik is doing the same (coastlines from shapefile, everything

Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Stefan de Konink
This is directly possible within DBSlayer. Stefan Op 26 okt 2009 om 13:05 heeft Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de het volgende geschreven:\ 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

Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
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

Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Marcus Wolschon
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: 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. This is only true for the

Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Cartinus
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 06:01:05 Marcus Wolschon wrote: I wasn´t aware that mapnik did not actually render the coastlines we have in the database. It does render the OSM coastlines. It's just that the coastline data goes through a different preprocessor. -- m.v.g., Cartinus