[OSM-talk] Potlatch :-)

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> Why PostGIS? The API uses MySQL not PostGIS.

Yep, temporary brain blackout.

>> This way we could provide a beta potlatch test which works on 
>> semi-current data with no danger of damaging real data. We could load a 
>> new dump each week/day or something.
> 
> No way are we doing daily. Weekly maybe, but probably only of a 
> part of the planet if only for disk space reasons.

Well for testing it would be sufficient to load the UK daily or weekky 
or whatever. Richard just told me though, that it would not help 
tremendously because he doesn't need people testing the UI, but somebody 
with OSM install observing SQL queries etc.

spaetz