[OSM-talk] Fw: calling all python coders for slippy map help

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 12:07, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> >Isn't it strange to create an xml file from a database and then reinject
> >it in another db ?
> >It seems (but i could be wrong) that most of the people who is using the
> >planet.osm always start by doing a database from it (or parse it to
> >extract a small area, which could be done easily from a db).
> >
> >Wouldn't it be more efficient to generate the planet file directly in
> >SQL format ?
>
> I *think* this is just a temporary requirement, to quickly get Mapnik
> tiles of the whole world.
>
> I believe the longer term plan (Steve?) is to store OSM data in a PostGIS

Is there a plan to migrate from mysql to postgress. Or do you mean the 
mysql-gis extention?


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