[OSM-dev] Complete tileset - experiments with tile sizes and disk space

2008-12-22 Thread Bill Magee
Hi, I'm new to OSM, please be gentle with me! I certainly do not wish to be an architecture astronaut as mentioned in the Wiki. I've read through ... http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-April/009736.html ... which is a thread regarding the filecount and filesize(s) involved to

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete tileset - experiments with tile sizes and disk space

2008-12-22 Thread Stefan de Konink
Bill Magee wrote: Anyway, as I say, I'm new to OSM so this might be discussions you've already had - if so my apologies. In NL we have implemented a High Performance on demand rendering and caching server and were experimenting with different tile sizes (and specially layer sizes!) Currently

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete tileset - experiments with tile sizes and disk space

2008-12-22 Thread OJ W
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Bill Magee b...@billmagee.co.uk wrote: I don't do *nix but on WinXP the typical allocation size for large disks is 4kb (and I assume other file systems will do similar). Any tile under 4kb (lots of them) will occupy this 4kb regardless. Back when ti...@home