[osmosis-dev] postGIS: bbox columns?

[David Carmean]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:31:13AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> David,
[snip]
> HOWEVER, it takes much longer to import the full linestrings than to 
> just import a bbox in the first place.
> 
> So if your application, for whatever reason, does not need pre-built 
> geometries, but just an overall idea of where in the world a certain way 
> is, then the bbox builder mechanism in Osmosis allows you to skip 
> linestring generation altogether, saving time and storage space.
[snip]

Frederik,

Thanks for the clarification.  Indeed the linestrings are the primary 
desired feature in my use cases (as will be polygons constructed from 
the closed ways).  

Thanks.