[El] RFC: package imposm

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Volker Fröhlich <volker27 at gmx.at> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] RFC: package imposm
Date: 12.05.2011 21:34

>Dear Peter!

Hi Volker
>
>What makes it different from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql
>?

>From a very practical POV, we are using http://code.google.com/p/mapserver-utils/ for rendering OSM maps with MapServer and mapserver-utils is switching to the schema generated by imposm, probably dropping the support for osm2pgsl.

AFAIK, imposm does a lot of data sanitation, so that it should be possible to have more performant WMS services. As an example, have a look at http://code.google.com/p/mapserver-utils/source/browse/trunk/buildings.map and compare it to http://code.google.com/p/mapserver-utils/source/browse/branches/imposm-branch/buildings.map. The situation where you have to checks like (building is not null and building!='no' and building!='false') are quite common when using osm2pgsql.
>
>There is no release so far. This is just so common for OSM software! Does
>it 
>work fine?
>
>I knocked together a rough version of the package:
>
>http://www.geofrogger.net/review/python-
>imposm-2.1.3-0.1.git175839e322c8.fc14.src.rpm
>
Wow! I'll have a look at this today. As a first feedback, the package builds without any problems. Anyway, I have a small problem installing it:

The package depends on python-psycopg2, which depends on postgresql-libs, whereas we do depend on postgresql84-libs.

We could rebuild python-psycopg2 removing the line:
Requires:       postgresql-libs

so that the package postgresqlclient81.x86_64 would provide the necessary lib, or change the requirements for postgresql84.

>We can work on it together, if you want to.
That'll be great!
>
>Volker
>
>

Peter
 
R3 GIS Srl - GmbH
http://www.r3-gis.com

>Am Mittwoch 11 Mai 2011, 16:54:30 schrieb Peter Hopfgartner:
>> I'm evaluating to package http://imposm.org. I'm not used to package
>Python
>> software at all, so this may be daunting. Any experience with this
>> software?
>> 
>> Peter Hopfgartner
>> 
>> R3 GIS Srl - GmbH
>> http://www.r3-gis.com
>> 
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