Middle improvements

In osm2pgsql there is that code that stores the raw data it gets from the input files and makes it available to other parts of osm2pgsql for further processing. This code is called, in osm2pgsql-speak, the “middle”. Over the last months we worked on some huge improvements to that code which not only makes it much faster but also adds some functionality and will allow even more processing options down the line. You can read about all the details of this project in this blog post by Jochen Topf.