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

[Lauri Hahne]

On 28/08/2007, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Maybe Sqlite would be a simple solution.

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Lauri Hahne