[Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

[John Ronan]

Unfortunately, Finding it difficult to get a machine with that much free space.

I'll keep looking though

Regards
de John
EI7IG


On 9 Jun 2010, at 22:39, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, John Ronan wrote:
> 
>> How large is the dataset?  Bandwidth we have, Disk space is a
>> different matter, but I could find out what some of those new
>> thumpers are doing tomorrow.
> 
> Found at:
> 
>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
> 
> "A new version of planet.osm is released weekly (currently every
> Thursday morning). We have these, going back to the start of April
> 2006. The current size of a planet.osm file is over 160 gigabytes
> (reduced to 7.3GB with bzip2 compression) as of November 2009."
> 
> 
> So, perhaps 250GB by now?  Maybe more?
> 
> They talk about three different rendering servers here:
> 
>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.5
> 
> But I thought the OSM database was available in Shapefiles too,
> which means the WMS server should work too?
> 
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