I submitted this to PostGIS/Dev newsgroup as well. I guess more to come.
I'll forward as more information comes.
Thanks,
Regina
-----Original Message-----
From: SteveC [mailto:steve@asklater.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:16 AM
To: Paul Ramsey
Cc: Paragon Corporation; Matt Amos; Tom Hughes
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] FW: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL
versus MySQL for GPS Data
Hi yes you guys can rejoice.
Matt or Tom can summarise reasoning.
On 21 Apr 2009, at 17:24, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Regina,
>
> This could be apocryphal. I understood Schuyler was making the case
> for PgSQL to the OSM folks, but not that any decision had been made.
> They just upgraded their physical infrastructure recently, but I
> wasn't aware that they changed their DB at that time.
>
> Steve? What's the word from OSM?
>
> Paul
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Paragon Corporation <lr@pcorp.us>
> wrote:
>> Thought someone here may be able to answer this.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of David
>> Fetter
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:09 PM
>> To: Peter Childs
>> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; PostgreSQL Advocacy
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for
>> GPS Data
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
>>> Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
>>
>> Can we get somebody from OSM to talk about this on the record?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David.
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Best
Steve
