Am 29.07.2010 17:50, schrieb John Smith:
On 30 July 2010 01:46, Timo Juhani Lindfors<[email protected]>  wrote:
that is needed by cgimap that in turn is needed by JOSM. Afaik
osm2pgsql is only good for mapnik and nothing else. I'd be happy to
be proven wrong though ;-)

What about the hstore patches that effectively store all tag
information, not just a limited subset?

osm2pgsql does resolve our node/way/relation concept into gis-objects (POINT, LINESTRING, POLYGON) and therefore looses Shared-Node information (ie. you don't know if two ways share a node or just cross), so it's still lossy.

The osm2pgsql schema is useful for all kinds of display purpose, ie. vector overlays like the OpenCuisineMap or for tools that don't depend on the geometry, eg. Translation utilities. So do say it's only useful for mapnik is not true.

Peter

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