Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-07 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Lars Ahlzen wrote: Either way, I guess the thing for me to do would be to clean things up just enough to be readable and then put the code and instructions up on the wiki. Then we can all play with it. :) If you want to try it out, I put the scripts and other files up at

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-05 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Apollinaris Schoell wrote: This sounds like an interesting experiment worth running on Amazon's EC2 cloud. Their x-large machines run at $1/hour, but sure would chomp on this data quickly! I would be willing to try (and pay for) it if Lars went through a did an updated

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: There's also the size of the data sets. The entire hi-res NHD and NED would probably be many, many TB. Unpacking, preparing and indexing that data requires plenty of additional disk space as well. One would probably have to

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-04 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
This sounds like an interesting experiment worth running on Amazon's EC2 cloud. Their x-large machines run at $1/hour, but sure would chomp on this data quickly! I would be willing to try (and pay for) it if Lars went through a did an updated setup doc. We could start our own distributed

[Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-03 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Hi All! It's been a while since the last TopOSM update, but I haven't been resting. After Massachusetts, I decided to pick a state with somewhat more interesting topography: Colorado. http://toposm.com/co/ There are still a few rough edges and things that are missing (like the map legend), so

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-03 Thread Bill Ricker
TopOSM-CO has a few important differences from TopOSM-MA: What, MASSGIS doesn't cover Aspen? * Color-by-elevation in base layer. interesting * Contour lines and hillshading generated from NED [1]. does that mean you're interpolating lines from a grid? * Hydrography (lakes, rivers,