At 2010-07-13 00:49, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Alan,
Alan Mintz wrote:
I just tried to look at tagwatch for North-america and got a 404,
possibly because there is no north-america directory at
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ either. What's up?
We haven't been doing North America for a while now. It puts considerable
strain on our processing chain and is little used (i.e. we use almost as
much bandwidth uploading the stuff to the server every day as people use
for downloading). Most people who have computing resources sufficient for
North America can also process the whole planet so we thought we needn't
bother.
It is true that this sabotages tagwatch as well, we'll see what we can do
to amend that. Tagwatch runs on the German OSM dev server which is also
heavily used. Do you think the US community would be willing and able to
run tagwatch-US somewhere on their servers? It could perhaps even be done
state-by-state based on the Cloudmade extracts, or of course based on a
North America extract from the planet.
Hopefully, someone can throw some resource at it. I'm a little disappointed
to see what could be seen as a value judgement, something I try very hard
to avoid in my cartographic endeavors, but I also understand the
constraints of limited resources.
I do believe TagWatch is an indispensable tool for creating at least _some_
consistency in tagging. Given most of our (including myself) lack of
attention to documenting things in the wiki, it's really a great resource
for finding out what people are actually doing in real-world scenarios in
the US.
What sort of resources are required? Machine, RAM, CPU/elapsed time, disk
space, size of files to up/download via network, assuming we're just
looking for a place to process, not host the results? Can it be done on
Windows?
--
Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>
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