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by chaps 1479 days ago
Heh, their data model is 99% of the reason why I don't use OSM. It's scattered all over the place with so many tables! It's such a nice project, but damn is it impossible to work with programmatically, let alone poke around it to discover what's all in there.
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matkoniecz 1479 days ago
> so many tables

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There are various complaints about OSM data model but this is a new one to me. In OSM basically everything is mixed together and there is no real separation into layers.

What you mean by "many tables"?

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peace4all 1479 days ago
He probably means what the osm2pgsql import tool creates.
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matkoniecz 1479 days ago
OK, then it is about default osm2pgsql data model that in part is independent from OSM data model.

"many tables" is definitely osm2pgsql design decision

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npteljes 1478 days ago
Would the Overpass API (have) fit your use case?
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