[HOT] Advised computer requirements

[Joseph Reeves]

At Nicolas' Brittany mapping party we followed the Windows
installation instructions / work flow under Ubuntu and got everything
working without too much trouble. I did say I'd start on a Ubuntu
guide, but got distracted. If it's something people want, however, I
could give it a go one weekend.

(Apologies, this email doesn't have much to do with the original topic..)

Cheers, Joseph



On 9 July 2011 11:02, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Reinier,
>
> We actually have a package with everything downloaded already to
> install.  This is currently a Windows set-up but that is usually what
> people show up with.
>
> It would be good to get an offline set-up that worked with Ubuntu too though.
>
> -Kate
>
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Reinier Battenberg
> <reinier.battenberg at mountbatten.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would surely recommend (k)ubuntu. All mentioned software packages are
> > available through the package manager so you dont have to visit a gazillion
> > websites to download the latest version, if you have multiple computers to
> > install, and not a lot of bandwidth, you can cache software & updates, no
> > virusses, no seperate drivers to install, it works,
> >
> > And its free.
> >
> > what else can you wish for?
> >
> > rgds,
> >
> > Reinier
> >
> >> 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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> >
> > Reinier Battenberg
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