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A new open client-side style for OpenStreetMap data
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Database schema #3

Closed pnorman closed 7 years ago

pnorman commented 7 years ago

If anything other than tilemaker is chosen for #2, the osm data needs to be in a postgis database.

The three options are

Abstraction is normally an advantage, but when aiming to be a stylesheet fairly close to the data and tagging like osm-carto is, it's a disadvantage. It doesn't make sense repeat the problems of osm2pgsql default, so osm-carto's transforms are a good option. This also allows the same DB to power both styles, which is a huge advantage.

pnorman commented 7 years ago

osm-carto's transforms is the selected option.