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

[Marcus Wolschon]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Peter Körner <osm-lists at 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 coastlines, as mapnik is doing the same
> (coastlines from shapefile, everything else from postgis).

That´s interesting.
I wasn´t aware that mapnik did not actually render the coastlines
we have in the database.

Marcus