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

[Stephen Cavilia]

I think it's also particularly useful in the US to see how other people
are mapping the (predominantly British) terminology used on the keys and
values described in the wiki to local conventions.

Steve

Alan Mintz wrote:
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
> 
> 
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