Re:Switch to OpenStreetMap
by dvdkon on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:08AM
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Importing OSM data into PostGIS is mostly painless with imposm3, probably because it's actually documented, unlike most other pieces in the tile-serving stack. The biggest hurdle is probably understanding both the OSM and SQL way of thinking.
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Interesting, a cursory glance at the git repo for imposm3 looks promising. Which also lead me to https://mapproxy.org/ which the maintainers of imposm3 also created.
I understand your comment about sql thinking, in my day-to-day work I'm a bit of a reluctant sql developer (shudders in procedural spaghetti) but am gaining appreciation for being able to hand off aggregations and calculations to the db.