Patience seems indeed to be the key ;-) I managed to get the data into my gis database on ubunty gutsy in a vmware vm. Don't try this at home with kids wanting to play games! My next step is getting Mapnik compiled. Thanks for the info guys.
John On Jan 22, 2008 8:03 PM, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:11 +0000, Dave Stubbs wrote: > > I think this is effectively what it's doing (it uses a postgres COPY > > statement too). Unfortunately there are about 10 million ways in the > > DB being added to GIST index, and it takes a while on my box as > > there's only 1GB RAM. > > > > I haven't looked at that part of the code in much detail either... I'm > > guessing it isn't doing anything particularly silly though, and before > > the tiger import it worked in a very reasonable amount of time. > > > Artem suggest I add a bounding box option to filter the planet during > the import. This would help make things a lot faster if you only want a > subset of the data. I've added it to my TODO list. > > Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >
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