[OSM-dev] North America gone in geofabrik and tagwatch

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-07-13 00:49, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Alan,
>
>Alan Mintz wrote:
>>I just tried to look at tagwatch for North-america and got a 404, 
>>possibly because there is no north-america directory at 
>>http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ either. What's up?
>
>We haven't been doing North America for a while now. It puts considerable 
>strain on our processing chain and is little used (i.e. we use almost as 
>much bandwidth uploading the stuff to the server every day as people use 
>for downloading). Most people who have computing resources sufficient for 
>North America can also process the whole planet so we thought we needn't 
>bother.
>
>It is true that this sabotages tagwatch as well, we'll see what we can do 
>to amend that. Tagwatch runs on the German OSM dev server which is also 
>heavily used. Do you think the US community would be willing and able to 
>run tagwatch-US somewhere on their servers? It could perhaps even be done 
>state-by-state based on the Cloudmade extracts, or of course based on a 
>North America extract from the planet.

Hopefully, someone can throw some resource at it. I'm a little disappointed 
to see what could be seen as a value judgement, something I try very hard 
to avoid in my cartographic endeavors, but I also understand the 
constraints of limited resources.

I do believe TagWatch is an indispensable tool for creating at least _some_ 
consistency in tagging. Given most of our (including myself) lack of 
attention to documenting things in the wiki, it's really a great resource 
for finding out what people are actually doing in real-world scenarios in 
the US.

What sort of resources are required? Machine, RAM, CPU/elapsed time, disk 
space, size of files to up/download via network, assuming we're just 
looking for a place to process, not host the results? Can it be done on 
Windows?

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>