[OSM-talk] Mapnik has busstops

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Robert (Jamie) Munro a écrit :

> These spatial columns are not part of the logical model of the data,
> which remains unchanged, they are just added as a sort of index or
> cache. Mapnik should be able to work directly from these columns, and
> you won't have to wait a week for Planet.osm, or even an hour for T at H to
> see your changes, they will be rendered instantly once you have uploaded
> them. As a side effect, the API will run a lot quicker because it will
> be able to use the spatial columns to speed queries.

that's rather interesting...
it sounds pretty similar to what I had done with postgres alone and
geometry objects (and triggers to update things automagically)