[OSM-dev] Volunteers needed now. OSM for Myanmar disaster relief.

[Steve Hill]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> TileCache + OSM + Mapnik is probably a very poor path to take. The world
> boundaries shapefiles are simply too large to reasonably expect to fit
> into memory on most machines in a TileCache-like setup.

Why not put all the shapefiles in PostGIS?  Surely that would allow them 
to be processed more efficiently?  (At least, I have everything in PostGIS 
on OpenPisteMap and it seems to work well.  However, I'm not using 
TileCache and my Mapnik is probably somewhat out of date).

  - Steve
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