Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-19 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Africa: 111 GB (3250 tiles) > * Australia: 36 GB (1060 tiles) > * Eurasia:202 GB (5902 tiles) > * Islands:5 GB(141 tiles) > * N America: 82 GB (2412 tiles) > * S America: 62 GB (1807

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Hill
Just a quick follow-up with some numbers for disk space usage for those interested. I had a go at importing 10 metre contour lines for the whole of Eurasia into PostGIS - latitudes of 0 - 46 degrees North required about 110 gig of disk space for the Postgres table and amounted to around 105 m

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-18 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Steve Hill wrote: >> Contours layer presented by openpistemap is simply great. Does it >> exist a server publishing only this layer? There is still the relief layer available, using addresses like http://srtm.in-ulm.de/layer/relief/z8/row89/8_134-89.jpg The tutorial on how to use these is here: h

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Jon Burgess
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:43 +, Steve Hill wrote: > My main performance issues revolve around importing the planet OSM > file > (osm2pgsql uses up crazy amounts of RAM (or rather, swap, in my case) One way to reduce the RAM usage is via a bounding box filter (--bbox in the latest osm2pgsql co

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: > > > There's also the amount of time it would take to render the tiles. It > > takes over 15 hours to render the contours used on the cycle map, and > > all things considered that co

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Hill
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: > There's also the amount of time it would take to render the tiles. It > takes over 15 hours to render the contours used on the cycle map, and > all things considered that covers a very small % of the planet surface > at any kind of decent zoom level. It's

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Contours layer presented by openpistemap is simply great. Does it > > exist a server publishing only this layer? > > I'm not sure how that would work - you really need the contours data set > to be the bottom layer, wi

[OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Hill
> Contours layer presented by openpistemap is simply great. Does it > exist a server publishing only this layer? I'm not sure how that would work - you really need the contours data set to be the bottom layer, with the normal layers on top of that (is it possible to ask OpenLayers to render the

[OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Guilhem Bonnefille
Contours layer presented by openpistemap is simply great. Does it exist a server publishing only this layer? I'm working on Viking, a desktop GPS data editor capable of rendering data on top of image downloaded on line. Having a contours layer would be usefull to prepare hicking. Thanks in advanc