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

[Andrew Harvey]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 18:13 +0300, venugopal palapala wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you please suggest which tool is better for the import.
>> 1.osm2gis
>> 2.osmosis
>> 3.osm2postgresql
>
> What do you want to do with the data once it is in postgresql? It is
> impossible to say which one is best without knowing what you want to do
> with it.

Sorry to hijack the original question, but what do people think would
best if I needed to do arbitrary queries on the data? ie. count of
objects with tag x = y (ie. can query any arbitrary key), or select
wkb of objects last edited by user x within (...some geometry) where
some key = some value...