On 19 October 2011 20:58, dre . <[email protected]> wrote: > Considering an OSM data fragment representing a town as Paris, London, etc, > I wonder assets and drawbacks of using a XML file (myTown.osm) against tools > as pgRouting or another PostgreSQL based database for routing, > visualization, updates from main server?
hi, you might get a better response on the dev mailing list. in brief, though: postgres will be a hell of a lot quicker serving data than xml. xml is easy to read and process by hand, but it is slow and the files are big. -- robin http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

