[OSM-dev] Mass imports (TIGER and AND)

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 8/28/07, Ray Booysen <raybooysen at rjb.za.net> wrote:
> Will not moving some of the work out to seperate clients not solve this
> problem?  With testing you're doing requests from one machine whereas
> the server should be able to handle multiple requests from multiple
> clients better.

The biggest problem with parallelisation is the feedback: when you
create a node you need to store the node number because later a
segment will use it. And the id of that segment will later be used to
create a way. So you need to think of a method to feed this data back
to a central store.

That's not to say it can't be done, but it's a lot more work than just
spawning a few extra processes and giving each a part of the file.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/