> running again. First one is just performance improvement for old one > (done by David Earl) and second one is completely new effort (by > Twain).
The one I've been working on (suggestions for a name for the project gratefully received off list BTW) is mostly functional. I was expecting to open it for testing on the geocoding list some time next week when it has finished indexing the most recent planet import however given the timing of this I've started an import of just a uk extract (which will take 3 to 4 hours to run assuming it all works first time) so people can have a quick preview. I'll post a URL to the list when it is complete. The main problem with the project, and reason it has been so slow, is the sheer size of the data. A complete test cycle for the whole planet data takes around a week assuming that nothing goes wrong and working on less than a country sized area is pointless because you don't get a true indication of performance. There is still considerable work to be done - the system doesn't just support diff updates, the code is very messy and in need of considerable cleaning up and there are a few known bugs with long strings running out of memory. I also want to move a lot more of the core search code into the database to make it less dependant on php. If people are keen it is possible that some of this work could be shared with other people. Cheers, -- Brian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
