Martin Spott <martin.sp...@mgras.net> writes: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:49:14 +0000 (UTC), Martin wrote in message >> <inuprq$pc4a$1...@osprey.mgras.de>: > >>> Shapefiles go into a PostGIS database, the "Landcover-DB" behind "The >>> FlightGear MapServer". Actually it's exactly the same database which >>> is also holding our 3D Scenery models and, among more stuff, an >>> import of the OpenStreetMap Planet Dump .... currently 157 GByte in >>> total :-) >> >> ..the last fg-scenery (1.0.1) is 13GB, _roughly_, how much >> will your 157GB add to the next version? > > I'm talking about raw vector data used for Scenery generation and more > or less related adventures, this is only partially related to the size > of the resulting Scenery. > Nevertheless people should expect the size of the World Scenery to grow > as detail in land cover increases.
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