[OSM-dev] imposm - New PostGIS importer for OSM data

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

On 05.04.2011, at 16:31, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> Have you considered to add a possibility to configure automatic creation
> of additional indexes on attribute fields then?

Not yet, I never needed any additional indices. 

> I mean indexes like in the
> postprocess script made by Thomas Bonfort
> (http://mapserver-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/postprocess.sql.in)?  Of
> course it is as efficient to make the indexes afterwards but it would be
> comfortable to have one tool which makes everything ready.


Most of these indices are not needed with imposm, because you don't have a single table with all polygons, where you would need an index to get all buildings/etc. efficiently. You just create a table for buildings. But anyway, I may add that feature sometime.

Regards,
Oliver

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