[OSM-talk] A Swedish national server for OSM

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

Inge Wallin schrieb:
> In the rather large thread "Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of 
> the current maps" I got to understand a few things that I didn't grasp 
> before.
> 
> So to make a long story short, I have decided to check the viability of 
> setting up a Swedish tile server + slippy map and some other services. To do 
> that I am applying for some money from the Swedish Internet Society that has 
> grants for such things.
> 
> But to be able to write the application, I need to understand the size of the 
> task.  Things like:
>  - How long does it take to render a typical tile set? Will a single machine 
> be able to render all the tiles for Sweden, for instance? What's the size of 
> the current render farm for the mapnik map on openstreetmap.org?
> 
>  - How much bandwidth will it use?
> 
>  - How difficult is it to set up a working server? I'm fairly skilled in 
> deployment, but I have never worked with mapnik, nor osmarender or 
> slippymaps.
> 
> I am aware that the questions are fuzzy, but all data will be much 
> appriciated.
> 

you can use the osmarender tiles from tah.openstreetmap.org, but if you 
want to make your own, you better not have to pay for traffic.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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