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

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Friday 17 November 2006 00:57, Jon Burgess wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 23:14 +0000, SteveC wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > We need help with the slippy map code. We need something that will do
> > what this script does (or better):
> >
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_Map#python_script
> >
> > but not take an infinite amount of memory and do the entire planet.osm
> > dump. Then we can generate tiles for everywhere.
> >
> > Answers on a postcard.
>
> Not quite what you asked for, but i've had a go at converting the python
> script into C. It looks like it produces SQL which looks like the output
> of the python script.
>
> On my Athlon64 3000 w/ 2GB of ram it takes about 15 minutes to convert
> planet.osm to an SQL file. The maximum RAM usage seemed to be around
> 650MB.
>
> $ time gzip -dc ~/osm/planet/planet-061023.osm.gz | ./convert - >

Can you please point me to the svn location of this program?
 find svn.openstreetmap.org -name "*convert*"
was empty.

-
Joerg