That is a great question.
I tried to import a sub set of the OpenStreetMap planet file (just germany) which is about 2 GB (bz2 compressed) in size into a basex database. Unfortunately, after 5% or the like, and this took almost over an hour (I am using an i7/4GB machine, I aborted the procedure. I am sure with spatial data types support, this procedure can be simplified/optimized a lot... Having said this, I would be interested in using basex as a backend for GIS data, too :-)
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2012/1/2 Schildmann, Ingo Schildmann@karb.de
Hi,
Our company evaluates BaseX for our project.
A new requirement is to show spatial data with a geographic information system.
Are there any plans for a spatial xquery module for querying GML like the (experimental) module in eXist?
http://exist-db.org/extensions.html#module_spatial
Regards, Ingo
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