[Legal-general] Who would start using an OSM PD repository?

[TimSC]

Landon,

Yeah the database approach is pretty cool - all the tools from the main 
OSM can be reused.

I did have a thought, which is probably obvious to everyone already. The 
OSM dev server has rails and databases are available. It is also has 
apache configured to render rails pages (I guess using passenger). But 
it does say on the wiki to not install big web apps, and I would imaging 
the rails port would qualify as big. From my personal experience, the 
load on the dev server is generally light(?). (At least as far as I can 
tell in munin[1]) So in principle, no new hardware or serious 
reconfiguration is needed for a test database.

Who was saying OSM was a do-ocracy?...

This would obviously not be a practical solution, if it became popular. 
But looking around for 3rd party options looks more attractive, if we 
get the cold shoulder from OSMF.

TimSC

[1] 
http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/errol.openstreetmap/index.html

On 29/07/10 22:23, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> TimSC,
>
> I've had some time to consider your questions. After some serious
> thought I realize that a database is the best way to store a seamless
> geospatial data set.
>
> It doesn't sound like your getting a lot of love from the OSMF board.
> :] You can contact me if you want to explore the idea of setting up an
> expiremental PD database.
>
> Landon
>