This is big and promising news for OSM data consumers as assembling GIS-suitable geometries from nodes, ways, relations poses a significant overhead for tools l

This is big and promising news for OSM data consumers as assembling GIS-suitable geometries from nodes, ways, relations poses a significant overhead for tools like osm2pgsql [1] (2012, pdf) That said, the current model has advantages like smaller diffs, albeit this might not be as pronounced currently with better storage and network. [1] https://www.geofabrik.de/media/2012-09-08-osm2pgsql-performance.pdf https://www.geofabrik.de/media/2012-09-08-osm2pgsql-performa...