Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (forosmdoc.com)

2009-08-24 Thread Ben Supnik
hi Chris, This may be a little bit useless but...I use multi-pass and tiling techniques to get the planet under my control for my work...I'm using C but a 32-bit process, so these techniques should work with Java. - When I split the planet, I use a very compact spatial index to make sure I don

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (forosmdoc.com)

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Lars, While it's not solving exactly the same problem as you, the mkgmap splitter utility is faced with similar challenges. It is written in Java and uses various techniques to reduce the amount of memory required while processing the planet osm. I've spent quite a bit of time profiling and