On 31 May 2009, at 15:40, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi, > I already got part of the answer - 50,000 (things; nodes, lines, areas > -total) so now i want to know, what approx size (in mb, kb) is safe? > I loaded a changeset of 358 kb and it seemed happy. Would 1 meg be > too much?
Size all depends on the volume of tags attached to the objects. > I know that there is a max geographical download area built in, (it's > say's "download area OK, size probably acceptable by server") but is > there a time out or an exact max file size to download? (a squak > level) (i know that i download a large area when im tracing from my > GPS Tracks. (Victoria is about 8 megs) and so it takes a little time > to load, so i dont load that big area any more, i just open that old > Victoria file, then zoom to the area im working in, then get the > latest updates for that small area. There a limits (on the main api) on both area 0.25 degree squares and number of objects returned. See http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/capabilities > Also, is there an easy way i can chop the .osm file into 4 or 16 happy > geographical area chunks? Thus, smaller file sizes to deal with. Osmosis - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
