[OSM-talk] Fw: calling all python coders for slippy map help

[Nick Whitelegg]

>Isn't it strange to create an xml file from a database and then reinject
>it in another db ?
>It seems (but i could be wrong) that most of the people who is using the
>planet.osm always start by doing a database from it (or parse it to
>extract a small area, which could be done easily from a db).

>Wouldn't it be more efficient to generate the planet file directly in
>SQL format ?

I *think* this is just a temporary requirement, to quickly get Mapnik 
tiles of the whole world.

I believe the longer term plan (Steve?) is to store OSM data in a PostGIS 
database to start with, so the tiles are rendered when data changes with 
minimum fuss.

Nick