[OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Earl<david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> Beyond getting the index updated using the existing technology, my next
> step is to try using postgres instead of mysql to (hopefully) increase
> the search speed (I use self-joins a lot and these should be faster in
> postgres; there may also be scope beyond that for replacing my low level
> word search algorithm with postgres' flexible free text searching but
> still retaining the multiple variations the system copes with at present).

This might be a silly question but has someone looked into using
dedicated search engines like lucene for OSM data?

That's what Wikimedia moved to after hacking search with relational
databases proved too slow, but I'm not familiar with how well it could
handle searching through geodata.