<p>Yes - this is intentional. You're looking at the slim tables, which are used for internal osm2pgsql purposes and store coordinates in the target projection (mercator), after scaling.</p>
<p>For most uses you want to be looking at planet_osm_point, not planet_osm_node, otherwise you're depending on a fairly specific osm2pgsql command line.</p>
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