Patience seems indeed to be the key ;-) I managed to get the data into my gis database on ubunty gutsy in a vmware vm. Don't try this at home with kids wanting to play games! My next step is getting Mapnik compiled. Thanks for the info guys.
<br><br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 22, 2008 8:03 PM, Jon Burgess <<a href="mailto:jburgess777@googlemail.com">jburgess777@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:11 +0000, Dave Stubbs wrote:<br>> I think this is effectively what it's doing (it uses a postgres COPY<br>> statement too). Unfortunately there are about 10 million ways in the
<br>> DB being added to GIST index, and it takes a while on my box as<br>> there's only 1GB RAM.<br>><br>> I haven't looked at that part of the code in much detail either... I'm<br>> guessing it isn't doing anything particularly silly though, and before
<br>> the tiger import it worked in a very reasonable amount of time.<br>><br></div>Artem suggest I add a bounding box option to filter the planet during<br>the import. This would help make things a lot faster if you only want a
<br>subset of the data. I've added it to my TODO list.<br><font color="#888888"><br> Jon<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dev mailing list
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