On 7 November 2011 16:58, Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Generally you shouldn't consider any performance implications when creating > a tag, because you don't know what will change in the next version of the > code. Very true. >The easy-for-mappers-but-maybe-a-bit-computationally-intensive scheme > you're trying to avoid Colon-delineated key namespaces are the exact opposite of "easy-for-mappers", for all bar a very few ultra-geeky mappers. Who happen to be the kind of people to invent new colon-delineated key namespaces and find them easy to use, as it happens. > For information, I'm assured that extra columns produce next to no > performance degradation anyway since osm2pgsql started using hstore. Which is not the case for the majority of osm2pgsql users that I'm aware of - it's only certain people who use hstore in production. Not that it should be influencing the rest of the discussion, just pointing it out. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
