[OSM-dev] which tool is better for osm data import to postgres

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Oliver

2011/6/5 Oliver Tonnhofer <olt at omniscale.de> wrote:
> I use it mostly for country extracts, but it also works with planet imports. The last import of a planet file took 20 hours on a host with 8GB RAM and a SATA RAID 1, it should be much faster on a host with more RAM.
>
>>> In short, it does everything to make the fastest rendering possible and this is one of the reasons that Imposm is used
>>> for the annual WMS benchmarking at the FOSS4G in Denver.
>>
>> Oh, I thought that will be our osm2gis :->
>
> Sorry if I grabbed that spot :) Dane suggested imposm on one of the last IRC meetings and it was accepted. It is already deployed and there is a first import of Colorado.

I think you misunderstood me :-> OSM-in-a-box and osm2gis has already
been proposed over a year ago at FOSS4G 2010 where we presented it
there.

Yours, Stefan