[osmosis-dev] postGIS: bbox columns?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

David Carmean wrote:
>     Who/what uses the ways.bbox column?  Is there something/somebody 
>     that cannot use the linestring gist index, but instead requires 
>     an explicit bounding box geometry?

Is the bbox column not meant to be a quicker alternative to a full 
linestring (quicker in importing, not quicker in using)? I.e. you won't 
have a linestring to base your GIST index on if you use that as intended.

Bye
Frederik

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