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

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 8/28/07, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> That shouldn't be a problem at all, in practice.  Who says we have to
> store it in memory? ;)  I can always just create a temporary directory
> and put all of the translations in there.
>
> $ cat /tmpdir/node.-56123234
> 123456

Well, when you've got 8 million of them that method won't work
obviously :) It's not insurmountable, but yes you need an external DB
to sotre the stuff in.

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