[OSM-talk] Server slowness

[SteveC]

* @ 15/01/07 11:54:54 AM thy at 42.dk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, Nick Hill wrote:
> > At the same time, my tests using MySQL have shown that many of the
> > theoretical performance benefits of the postGIS system are just that
> > - theoretical, and genuinely look forward to being proven wrong on 
> > this.
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, but how can you evaluate PostGIS by testing MySQL?
> 
> Otherwise, I very much agree with the main parts of your post. A lot of
> OSM's potential usefulness to me is lost in the amount of work I have to
> do to make the data usable.

And spatial columns magically make it usable? Oh, come on.

Is it shapefiles you want?

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/