[Openstreetmap] Database storage format?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I just became aware of the OpenGIS site, <URL:http://www.opengis.org/>
after reading about the PostGIS project,
<URL:http://postgis.refractions.net/>.

There seem to be an 80 page specification on how to store spatial data
in SQL.  Check out "Simple Features Specification for SQL" at
<URL:http://www.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf>.  Is this the database
format we should be using?  I haven't read the specification yet, so
I'm not sure if it is useful for us or not.

I came across PostGIS when testing qgis,
<URL:http://qgis.sourceforge.net/>, noticing its support for storing
map info in a database using PostGIS.