On 27/08/09 14:26, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Earl<da...@frankieandshadow.com> > wrote: >> Beyond getting the index updated using the existing technology, my next >> step is to try using postgres instead of mysql to (hopefully) increase >> the search speed (I use self-joins a lot and these should be faster in >> postgres; there may also be scope beyond that for replacing my low level >> word search algorithm with postgres' flexible free text searching but >> still retaining the multiple variations the system copes with at present). > > This might be a silly question but has someone looked into using > dedicated search engines like lucene for OSM data?
Brian's stuff is using the full text search support in postgres which is effectively a dedicated full test search engine. The advantage of using that over something like lucene is that you combine geographic restrictions (using postgis) with text searches in the same query. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
