Do you know about the new jXAPI servers being run by both OSMF and Mapquest open? I haven't used them recently so I'm not sure if they are always overloaded as well or not.
I have my own instance of this java based XAPI[1] service running on my server at home. For only serving up New Zealand I think any old server should do. I actually have the whole planet in my database. It takes just over 500 GB and can serve up queries on reasonably large areas within a couple of minutes. The biggest bottleneck is disk I/O. I'm running on a 3x1TB RAID5 array on a pretty old AMD dual core with 3 GB of memory. There are basic instructions for getting set up on github. I also wrote a rather long blog post about it: http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2011/04/parse-planet-into-pgsnapshot-database.html I think the problem is keeping it up to date. There are issues with applying the minutely/hourly diffs to a bounding box. It might not be as much of a problem for an island though. I guess you could always wipe the database and reload the NZ extract on a regular basis. [1] https://github.com/iandees/xapi-servlet/ Toby On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Robin Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > based on the issues with the current xapi servers (i.e. almost always > overloaded/down), i'm looking at running a separate instance, on the > osm new zealand site - purely for serving data nz at the moment. > > this won't be a huge amount of data - the whole country is around > 250mb uncompressed > > does anyone have recommendations for a simple, low maintenance, low > resource server, with (mostly) full api implementation? i've taken a > brief look at xappy.js and microcosm - has anyone used these much? > > cheers > > -- > robin > > http://bumblepuppy.org/blog/?p=237 - government bill to remove basic > human rights in NZ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
