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

[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 
resolving of node coordinates is done by osm2pgsql.

Peter