[HOT] Advised computer requirements

[Dane Springmeyer]

Hi Brian,

Ideally all key HOT software should/can run decently on a constrained setup - like a 4-5 year old PC with Windows that has one processor and only 512 MB memory. This is suboptimal of course, but even with this setup you should be able to say... use JOSM to download a *small* chunck of OSM data and edit it and upload, use GPSBabel to convert GPS data to GPX, and you should be able to import a small amount (like under 50 MB extract) of osm data into postgis and use basic functions of QGIS.

That said, if you are getting a new machine, a good setup would be 2 cores, 2-4 GB Ram.

Beyond that we'd have to know more about your aspirations because specs must increase drastically with the amount of OSM data you wish to handle at any time.

Dane

On Jul 8, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Brian Wolford wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anybody out there could help me out real quick with suggested system requirements for computers running the softwares on the HOT_kit. Postgres, postGIS, Qgis, ect...
> 
> RAM, disk space, CPU details...
> 
> What specifications would be adequate and which would be ideal.
> 
> If anyone out there is familiar with these issues I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Brian Wolford
> 
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