[OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

[Serge Wroclawski]

Similarly, Ian Dees and I have written a server using MongoDB, which
also provides functionality such as auto-sharding and built in
map/reduce.

- Serge

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Lars Francke <lars.francke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> were there any successful attempts to read OSM data into CouchDB and
>> Geocouch? Does somebody know of a backend?
>
> I have done something like that and can provide some code at the end
> of July (I won't be back home before then). It really is just a
> different kind of schema. But the exact schema depends on what you
> want to use it for. Do you want to use it as an alternative to the
> API/PostgreSQL or a convenient storage on mobile devices, routing
> data, mapnik backend etc.
>
> CouchDB is kinda great (even though the documentation sucks) but it's
> just one out of many tools and may or may not be a good fit.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
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