[OSM-talk] Hosting OSM yourself?

[Lester Caine]

Phil Winstanley wrote:

> I was just wondering is it possible to host OSM maps and the slippymap 
> stuff yourself under the current licence?
All the data is available to download
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet.osm
Be warned - it's getting on for 4Gb when extracted.

> I’m just thinking in terms of limiting “points of failure” for the 
> system I’m working on and it would be nice if the maps could be hosted 
> with the application, thus meaning if one’s up they’re both up.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Using_OpenStreetMap covers the 
off line stuff

> I suppose, leading on from this question, what makes up the map server 
> in terms of applications and data?
See the above. No problem doing your own thing.
I nearly have a package that parses the xml back into something I can 
use in my own database and then search on.

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