[Xastir] OSM rendering server

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

On 9/19/2014 11:03 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
>
> bleh.  storage looks like a deal-breaker, especially for a mobile
> platform (truckputer).

Oh yeah, I didn't mention that my rendered tiles are stored on a 
three-spindle (virtual) RAID array that I also managed to fill up the 
other day while the updates were down because I had filled up the SSDs.  
It's not a "set and forget" undertaking.

> Have you experimented with subsets of the planet, e.g. CONUS or
> smaller (SE, NE, etc)?

Given the time and resources required, I focused solely on the whole 
planet because I wanted to be able to serve tiles to anyone anywhere if 
it became necessary.  At the time I put it together, I had received a 
"bad-boy" notice from the osm tile server folks saying that my 
APRSISCE/32 application was in the top 10 tile consumers.  I replied 
back to them explaining that their terms had changed after I had 
deployed (thanks to them having a wiki with publicly visible history) 
and that I was following all of the guidelines that existed at the 
time.  They haven't bothered me since, but I still wonder just how much 
load that app is presenting to their servers.

> Is it feasible to extract a subset of the OSM data and convert to shapefile ?

http://bit.ly/YYthPL

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32