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

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:05:07 +0100, Peter Körner <osm-lists at 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