osm_point table is populated, but osm_nodes is not.

General talk
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If that’s important, what should I do about it?

At the moment, I’m trying to extract all the mappable data so that I can compare it with data from other sources and eventually fold everything together into record and pseudo-graph tables (as well as create a map, of course).

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You should give us more information about your problem if you want to be helped.

Tell us in detail what you have done step by step, and what you have expected to get in detail.