On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:58 PM, David Ranch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok.. so this is was part of the detail that I'm not familiar with and why > I asked what that 11GB of data really consists of. > IIRC it is OSM vector data for some or all of the united states. My stash of vector data is 100k and/or 24k topo data, National Atlas data, and about 10 states worth of the old TIGER shapefiles, and it totals about 12Gb. > I agree it's not practical to store, maintain, and update TBs of data but > is that what we're really looking at here? For me, I would think I'd like > to have: > Well, if we're talking about a hypothetical online tile cache for xastir users, yes. _you_ want Silicon Valley. _I_ want Alabama, north Georgia, middle and eastern Tennessee, and the Florida panhandle. Basically everyone wants their home turf in full detail so we're effectively talking about the whole US. I don't recall details on how big the tiles are, but when tile servers first came online I set up a 50Gb VM and started caching at all zoom levels. It became clear it was impractical. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
