[OSM-dev] Osmium

[Dane Springmeyer]

On Jan 8, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Jochen Topf wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 07:53:45PM -0800, Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>> Amazing work, really looking forward to learning more about osmium.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> Have you considered making the js stuff a NodeJS addon?
> 
> I have looked at it a little bit but from what I saw NodeJS has specific
> ideas on how things are supposed to work, mainly that everything has to
> be non-blocking and use a callback structure.

Yes.

> I wasn't sure how to integrate
> that and I didn't need the NodeJS functionality anyway, so I just used
> plain V8.

Great, that was my hunch, good to hear your thinking.

> Maybe somebody else who knows more about NodeJS can figure out
> how this could be done and whether it would make sense.

I'll certainly keep this in mind as I learn more about node (I've just recently started experimenting [1]). I could see great value in being able to hook into osmium from a node application in the future.

Thanks!

Dane


[1] https://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik

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