On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:03:14AM +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El Lunes, 11 de Mayo de 2009, Sam Mor escribió: > > it's not a production server, it' s a research server... > > > > we have 500 Gig, which file do we use : > > planet-070711.osm.bz2 11-Jul-2007 07:47 299M > > or > > planet-071107.osm.bz2 07-Nov-2007 10:26 1.2G > > > > or more , what do you think? > > Use the latest one, about 6.5GB. The amount of disk space used will be around > 3-4 times the planet size (for the PostGIS DB), plus the tiles. If you use > mod_tile, you will only render a small amount of tiles, so you shouldn't have > to worry about disk space (much). Even more important in my opinion are the savings in CPU-time. On my machine[1] to render all of Europe up to zoom level 12 took about 3-4 days. And the time is increasing exponantially for each additional zoomlevel (as each has 4 times the amount of tiles).
mod_tile just renders on demand ... parts nobody looks at, just don't get rendered. [1] http://www.openstreetbrowser.org greetings, Stephan -- Seid unbequem, seid Sand, nicht Öl im Getriebe der Welt! - Günther Eich ,---------------------------------------------------------------------. | Stephan Plepelits, | | Technische Universität Wien - Studium Informatik & Raumplanung | | > openstreetbrowser.org > couchsurfing.com > tubasis.at > bl.mud.at | | [email protected] - My Blog: http://plepe.at | `---------------------------------------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
