Bottom line: if you want to output OSM data use osmosis pgsnapshot schema and if you want to render use osm2pgsql schema.
They currently aren't compatible. On May 30, 2011 4:23 PM, "Stefan Keller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/5/30 Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 05/30/11 17:19, Peter Körner wrote: > ... >>> Wouldn't it be more logical to trick the rendering system to use the >>> pgsnapshot tables? >> >> I think that all depends on what you want to do with your system. A >> rendering system that uses pgsnapshot tables will almost certainly be slower >> than one that uses the osm2pgsql schema, and likely unsuitable for live >> rendering; but if you only need it for batch processing then that's >> certainly an option. > ... >> Another possibility would be modifying the JXAPI code to work on >> osm2pgsql-style slim mode tables, with the limitations that entails. Thing >> is that the slim mode tables don't normally have geo indexes which would >> have to change then. > > We're not targeting a rendering system but OSM web services which > deliver OSM data in geospatial formats (incl. point, linestring and > polygon). > > We're using heavily the hstore option and recently tried the slim mode > (with varying success) because of out-of-memory problems: > > osm2pgsql --create --slim --database gisdb --prefix osm --style > /usr/local/share/osm2pgsql/default.style --username ifs > --hstore-all switerland.osm.bz2 > > I think that the resulting tables could serve both worlds: the spatial > (osm_line,osm_point,osm_polygon,osm_roads,osm_ways) and the osm world > (osm_nodes,osm_rels,osm_ways). But I'm still open to any solutions > based other tools as long as they output e.g. polygons. :-> > > That's why I thought that by configuring default.style one could > "tweak" the output so that it could serve the JXAPI (perhaps with some > additional views)? > > Yours, Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
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