[OSM-talk] Server slowness

[Kristian Thy]

On Mon, Jan 15, SteveC wrote:
> > 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.

Er, no. That's not what I said.
 
> Is it shapefiles you want?

In order for the data to be usable for anything but rendering, it needs
to be sorted. "Real" point features (as opposed to those points that are
just vertices for ways) into separate amenity, (poi, whatever) layers,
ways into line layers, area features into polygons. What I want is to
ditch the "everything is a line" model. Whether this is done in
shapefiles, GML, or any other well-described and OGR-compatible format
is (almost) irrelevant.

> have fun,

You too.

\\kristian
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