[OSM-dev] Major osm2pgsql rewrite pull request up

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Tue Sep 30 16:40:48 UTC 2014


MapQuest has spent some work converting osm2pgsql to C++, and have put 
up a pull request to merge our work back upstream to osm2pgsql.

In theory, this should have no real impacts for anyone simply using 
osm2pgsql, as any of the dependencies required will be found on any 
rendering server using Mapnik 2. The main impacts will be for 
developers, and some speed increases.

There is also a new backend, the multi-backend. This will have more 
long-term impact, but is a new feature, and will only be of use to those 
running multiple servers, or requiring multiple rendering databases with 
different style files.

More information can be found on the pull request at 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/pull/187



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