[OSM-talk] Suggested Change of the database Scheme

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 20:42, bvh wrote:
...
> Suppose you want to know if there is a butcher in your area and all you
> have is openstreetmap. That would require you to look up your area
> with an editor, find all nodes with amenity="butcher"
> (manually, no editor does this automatically) and then go sift through
> the tags to find out if it is open today, if they speak English and
> if they sell Halal meat.

Oh this is your point, you don't want to search a butcher in josm. I don't 
think you'll have to do this. YOu simply have to wait a little bit until the 
mapfeature.xml stuff has settled a little bit and other programs like 
GpsDrive, Roadnav, ... get all the osm data imported. And I'm sure there will 
be a search button where you can search for a butcher, traffic-light, 
bubblegum-machine, or Pharmacy. And this is exactly what I want.

> While most of that could be automated with better client support,

YES you get it. (Sorry for the sarcasm, ...)

> what is not going to go away is the heavy mmap=? lookup. It's a scheme
> that is bound to not scale...

Well if you want to change the database scheme this is a completely different 
Topic. So if you really want; you should start talking about changing the 
Database Scheme. 

Oh well ... I'll get out of this discussion for now and start hacking again.

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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