[Xastir] Pi 3 as tile server?

[Freddie]

I apologize for suggesting a hard drive. 

I guess that what you are doing is significantly different than my usage. I store tiles on a hard drive (SSD, etc) that I use with APRSIS32. I do use it OFFLINE and have many gigs of tiles (OSM, aerial, topo, marine). Only recently I have added a hotspot but I still have all the tiles. I add extra tiles to them on a regular basis. 

One thing I do is limit the zoom level to no deeper than 15. Other than OSM, most only go that deep anyway. For OSM, I found there is really no new data that is useful while I am in my vehicle. The only downside I find today is that the monitor resolutions are such that the pixels are so much smaller than when I started doing this. I had a 640x480 10" screen. Now the same 10" size has many more pixels which makes everything extremely small. 

I have started using an uSD card myself recently and the 64GB and 128GB are dropping in price and becoming common place. However, the classic hard drives are lasting longer in my experience. 

Best regards, 
Fred N7FMH 


----- Original Message -----

From: "Jason KG4WSV" <kg4wsv at gmail.com> 
To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 1:01:14 PM 
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Pi 3 as tile server? 

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Freddie <fmhillhouse at comcast.net> wrote: 

> Why not just load to tiles on your hard drive? 
> 

well, if you look at what I said 

take xastir offline, and do it in a way that I can load up three or four 
> states worth of maps and not plug the box back up to the internet for a 
> year. 


and then do some math on how much disk space that that many tiles would 
take up, you's see I would need at least half a 42U rack for the SAN and a 
diesel generator to power it - not really all that portable... 

and it's definitely a bit much for the SD card i'm trying to use. 

-Jason 
kg4wsv 
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