>>> For around £25 a month I get quite a decent server but even still, I >>> am constrained to only offering data for selected areas of the UK >>> (much of England away from the urban areas, and all of Wales).
>>What sort of spec machine are we taking about for a GB extract? >The main problem is less the osm2pgsql extraction (which can be run in slim >mode to conserve memory) and more the speed of accessing the postgis database >to grab the >data. >My current machine (Bytemark VM) has 1GB memory, 20GB disc space, 1 core. >See: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/hosting/virtual_machines >With caching the generated GeoJSON data and a cron job to re-render tiles, >this can (only just!) cope with an extract covering part of England and all of >Wales, see >http://www.free-map.org.uk/0.6/about.html#village >Not sure, without looking up, what percentage of the data is used by Freemap, >but given London, Birmingham etc are missed out, as well as the whole of >Scotland and most >of the Midlands and East Anglia, I'm guessing abput 25% or >so. I can check later though. Hello Andy, To follow up on this: the total size of all the PBF files I use to populate the Freemap database is 294MB, compared to 524MB for the complete OSM extracts for the whole of England and Wales. So a machine with perhaps 2-3x the RAM and disc space (for caching) of the above might do it for the UK. Thanks, Nick
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