[OSM-talk] Server slowness

[Nick Whitelegg]

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?

If people are interested in shapefiles, there is osm2shp in SVN. It takes 
a "cleaned" OSM file (ways with logically ordered segments) and outputs a 
shapefile for nodes and another for ways. Polygons are not done yet.

Nick

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