[OSM-talk] XML database VS PostgreSQL for OSM

[Robin Paulson]

On 19 October 2011 20:58, dre . <gwennen at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Considering an OSM data fragment representing a town as Paris, London, etc,
> I wonder assets and drawbacks of using a XML file (myTown.osm) against tools
> as pgRouting or another PostgreSQL based database for routing,
> visualization, updates from main server?

hi,
you might get a better response on the dev mailing list.

in brief, though: postgres will be a hell of a lot quicker serving
data than xml. xml is easy to read and process by hand, but it is slow
and the files are big.

-- 
robin

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