On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 23:45:57 +0200 Florian Lohoff <f...@zz.de> wrote:
> Hi Nick, > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:47:01AM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > > > (Disclaimer: I am the developer of said project) > > > > You can login using your OSM account. > > The issue is that once you start pushing stuff into any projects your > storage expenses will kill you pretty fast. > > https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html > > Thats 0.005$ per GB and Month. Thats *12 *1024 for a Terrabyte. Thats > something like 60$ per Year per Terrabyte which sounds reasonable > concerning disk costs. Costs per disk per lifetime and infrastructure > to connect it to the IP Network. > > Since late May i have produced: > > flo@p4:/scratch/local/mapillary$ du -sh . > 285G . > flo@p4:/scratch/local/mapillary$ find . -type f -iname "*.jpg" | wc -l > 97407 > > So just pushing worth like 2 Weeks of taking street imagery will cost > the Hoster about 20$ per year from now on. And i have pushed multiple > terrabytes to Mapillary since 2014. > > And thats just me. Put that to a global OSM perspective and you need > serious funding for storing all that imagery, let alone the CPU cycles > for your compute vision to blur faces and number plates. Serious funding? Yes. Outrageous funding? No. Rough estimate: * The CIA World Factbook says there are about 64 000 000 km of roads in the world. * Google Street View takes 100 photos per km. * A photosphere from my tablet, compressed using WebP at 50% quality takes 2.7 MB. This is about 17 280 TB of storage to cover the entire world at Google Street View quality. It would cost $215 000 per month to store in Amazon S3, or $89 000 per month in Backblaze B2. It's well within the capacity of someone like the Wikimedia Foundation. -- Mark _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
