Unfortunately, Finding it difficult to get a machine with that much free space.
I'll keep looking though Regards de John EI7IG On 9 Jun 2010, at 22:39, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, John Ronan wrote: > >> How large is the dataset? Bandwidth we have, Disk space is a >> different matter, but I could find out what some of those new >> thumpers are doing tomorrow. > > Found at: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm > > "A new version of planet.osm is released weekly (currently every > Thursday morning). We have these, going back to the start of April > 2006. The current size of a planet.osm file is over 160 gigabytes > (reduced to 7.3GB with bzip2 compression) as of November 2009." > > > So, perhaps 250GB by now? Maybe more? > > They talk about three different rendering servers here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.5 > > But I thought the OSM database was available in Shapefiles too, > which means the WMS server should work too? > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
