Graham Jones [mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com] wrote: >Sent: 22 February 2011 9:01 PM >To: Roland Olbricht >Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] XAPI and using a home server > >Roland, >Thanks for this - I had never heard of OSM3S. I'll have a look at it. >It sounds as though the database handling is part of the OSM3S code, rather >than using an external database engine? >If the hardware requirements are as modest as you say I can imagine using >this as a replacement for calling xapi to download town sized areas of OSM >data for rendering. >
Exactly my thought. Most interesting, will have to give it a try. Thanks for this Roland. Cheers Andy > >Regards > > >Graham. > > >On 22 February 2011 20:27, Roland Olbricht <roland.olbri...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > Well, there could perhaps be another solution, like running your >own > > XAPI server - the minutely diffs are usually less than 100Kb, so the > > required bandwidth to download from planet.openstreetmap.org >would be > > less than 2 Kb/second in average. > > > > But the question is - how large would be the planet database on >disk > > (how large would it get once you import the planet dump) > > Triggered by your request, I've made a deployable version of OSM3S. >It needs > only modest hardware requirements (1 GB RAM and 40 GB hard disk >space for the > entire world). See > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM3S/install > > It has a different syntax than XAPI and partly different capabilities, but >if > you work with map data and don't need metadata about users, you >likely can use > it. > > Cheers, > > Roland > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > >-- >Graham Jones >Hartlepool, UK. > >________________________________ > > >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3461 - Release Date: 02/22/11 _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3461 - Release Date: 02/22/11
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