[OSM-dev] Managing large XML files aka osm.xml

[Stefan de Konink]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Artem Pavlenko wrote:

> David Siegel implemented support for libxml2 parser in Mapnik, check
> it out :

I was able to load the entiere planet.osm into MonetDB4 (XML), but
incompare to the SQL version it is not optimal. And one may wonder why he
wants to use an text representation instead of a processed binary!

For plain XML processing people should probably stick with MSXML for the
time being. The performance of it is probably the best one out there. We
did some XSLT processing based on the tiles at home stuff, and it is not
funny that an 8 times as powerful machine gets beaten.


I wonder how much time it will take for each run on an 8GB machine
processing the current planet.osm (61GB).


Stefan