Actually I did import my data with "osm2pgsl -l" and I also reprojected 2 out of 3 shape files from 900913 to 4326 using OGR2OGR.
John On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > > John Mitchell wrote: > >> When using Mapnik WMS using the ogcserver component with WSGI as a >> standalone server why is 900913 (Spherical Mercator) projection faster than >> 4326 (WGS84) projection for displaying data? >> > > This is not generally the case. The general rule ist that something where > Mapnik has to do a reprojection is slower than something where it doesn't. > So if you have imported OSM data with osm2pgsl without any extra flags then > you have 900913 projected data in the database and it does not have to be > reprojected. > > For the fastest 4326 results, import your data with "osm2pgsl -l". > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > -- John J. Mitchell
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