diff --git a/src.java/crosby/binary/BinaryParser.java b/src.java/crosby/binary/BinaryParser.java
index cdd25f5..d0dcde6 100644
--- a/src.java/crosby/binary/BinaryParser.java
+++ b/src.java/crosby/binary/BinaryParser.java
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ public abstract class BinaryParser implements BlockReaderAdapter {
         for (Osmformat.PrimitiveGroup groupmessage : block
                 .getPrimitivegroupList()) {
             // Exactly one of these should trigger on each loop.
+            parseNodes(groupmessage.getNodesList());
             parseWays(groupmessage.getWaysList());
             parseRelations(groupmessage.getRelationsList());
             if (groupmessage.hasDense())
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ public abstract class BinaryParser implements BlockReaderAdapter {
     
     protected abstract void parseRelations(List<Osmformat.Relation> rels);
     protected abstract void parseDense(Osmformat.DenseNodes nodes);
+    protected abstract void parseNodes(List<Osmformat.Node> nodes);
     protected abstract void parseWays(List<Osmformat.Way> ways);
     protected abstract void parse(Osmformat.HeaderBlock header);
 
diff --git a/src/osmformat.proto b/src/osmformat.proto
index 1e18b0d..760ea62 100644
--- a/src/osmformat.proto
+++ b/src/osmformat.proto
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ message PrimitiveBlock {
 
 // Group of OSMPrimitives. All primitives in a group must be the same type.
 message PrimitiveGroup {
+  repeated Node     nodes = 1;
   optional DenseNodes dense = 2;
   repeated Way      ways = 3;
   repeated Relation relations = 4;
@@ -148,6 +149,19 @@ message ChangeSet {
    optional HeaderBBox bbox = 11;
 }
 
+
+message Node {
+   required sint64 id = 1;
+   // Parallel arrays.
+   repeated uint32 keys = 2 [packed = true]; // String IDs.
+   repeated uint32 vals = 3 [packed = true]; // String IDs.
+
+   optional Info info = 4;
+
+   required sint64 lat = 8;
+   required sint64 lon = 9;
+}
+
 /* Used to densly represent a sequence of nodes that do not have any tags.
 
 We represent these nodes columnwise as five columns: ID's, lats, and