[Xastir] Local OSM tile server

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:21 PM Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried the procedure below today on a cheap laptop with a weak Celeron
> CPU.


Thanks Lee.  Can you give us some specs on the computer? clock rate, #
cores, RAM, maybe some disk specs like interface speed or RPM?  Did you use
this to feed maps to xastir running on the same machine?

Is the tile server process compute-bound or I/O bound?

I've contemplated something similar using an Odroid XU4 which has double
the RAM, clock, and # cores, USB3 instead of 2, Gb ethernet instead of
100M, etc as compared to the raspberry pi 3.  We've used them at work for
virtualization (running VMs via qemu) and it's a pretty impressive little
board for under US$100. There's a new variant called the HC1 ("home cloud")
that forgoes several external connections but provides a SATA connector and
disk mount so it can be dedicated to storage. If it had an HDMI port i'd
probably already have one to make a tile server + xastir machine.  I do
have one that I'm using for a home file server and it's solid, as are the
75 or so XU4s we have at work.

For the expense I'd probably be better off just going with a laptop, but I
can't quite let go of the idea of a linux touchscreen mounted on the dash.

-Jason
kg4wsv