[OSM-talk] Server slowness

[Nick Black]

On 1/15/07, Kristian Thy <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.


What would make the data more usable, aside from the UTF-8 problems in
the past?  I guess stuff like exporting as Shapefiles or GML, GeoRSS,
or a PostGIS SQL dump?

Nick
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