Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-03-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/1 Robin Paulson : > On 2 March 2011 00:42, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> Yes, you will not need a very big machine. I am currently rendering >> Italy (similar in size to NZ) and it takes around 2 days with a really > > haha. italy has 14 times the data of NZ, so i guess we can reduce that >

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-03-01 Thread Robin Paulson
On 2 March 2011 00:42, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Yes, you will not need a very big machine. I am currently rendering > Italy (similar in size to NZ) and it takes around 2 days with a really haha. italy has 14 times the data of NZ, so i guess we can reduce that time somewhat... > lame laptop (

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-03-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/28 Jon Burgess : > To improve the responsiveness you probably want to pre-render all the > tiles from zoom 0 through to around zoom 13, 14 or 15. These are the > ones which take the longest to render, leaving the higher zooms to > render on demand. For a relatively small area it will probab

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-02-28 Thread Jon Burgess
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:41 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote: > On 1 March 2011 10:22, Richard Weait wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Robin Paulson > > wrote: > >> we at OSM New Zealand are looking at rendering our own (NZ-only) > >> tiles, and we'd like to get a rough idea of the hardware

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-02-28 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 28.02.2011 22:41, Robin Paulson wrote: a quad core 8 GB ram 1 TB of disk as high as that! wow, i thought it'd be way lower for ~200MB of uncompressed data It IS a lot lower. The thaimap.osm-tools.org is running on a virtual machine. It has 1GB of guaranteed RAM and 2x2 GHz guaranteed CPU.

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-02-28 Thread Robin Paulson
On 1 March 2011 10:22, Richard Weait wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Robin Paulson > wrote: >> we at OSM New Zealand are looking at rendering our own (NZ-only) >> tiles, and we'd like to get a rough idea of the hardware requirements >> we will need >> >> are there any rules of thumb fo

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-02-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > we at OSM New Zealand are looking at rendering our own (NZ-only) > tiles, and we'd like to get a rough idea of the hardware requirements > we will need > > are there any rules of thumb for how long it would take to render a > given lat/lon bb

[OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-02-28 Thread Robin Paulson
we at OSM New Zealand are looking at rendering our own (NZ-only) tiles, and we'd like to get a rough idea of the hardware requirements we will need are there any rules of thumb for how long it would take to render a given lat/lon bbox, using mapnik? i assume lat/lon is the independent variable, a