[ELGIS] Re: [El] RFC: package imposm

[Volker Fröhlich]

Still rough around the edges:

http://www.geofrogger.net/review/python-
imposm-2.1.3-0.2.git175839e322c8.fc14.src.rpm

A couple of problems came up to me. See TODO comments!

Volker

Am Freitag 13 Mai 2011, 11:02:07 schrieb 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-bra
> nch/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
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> 
> >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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