On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/11/11 03:28, Serge Wroclawski wrote: >> >> I'm willing to bet that Ian's Java XAPI is faster at handling a bbox >> request than Rails is, and so as soon as we can move the requests to >> this implementation, the better, even if the hardware stayed the same. > > Bbox queries (aka "the /map call") are currently handled by a reasonably > effective C++ FastCGI implementation (aka "Matt's cgimap") which is, as far > as I can say, probably the best you can do with the underlying database > structure. If Ian's XAPI is able to beat that (and I'm eager to see results) > then it will probably be due to spatial indexing on ways and relations - > which our current database structure doesn't do.
It's certainly possible to add spatial indexes on ways and relations without changing any of the code which doesn't utilize those spatial indexes. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
