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

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:27:31AM +0100, Steve Hill wrote:
> 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 TileCache and my Mapnik is probably somewhat out of date).

Setting up mod_tile is probably easier than keeping an up-to-date set of
coastline shapes in PostGIS.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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