[OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio

[John McKerrell]

Hi

After a conversation on IRC I started wondering what the total disk  
space was that people had used for their OSM photos (the photos of  
road signs, postboxes, etc. that many people use for mapping). I  
thought I'd conduct a straw poll on here to see what numbers came  
out. I'm not looking for particularly accurate numbers so there's no  
need to strip out photos that were blurred etc, but please actually  
check rather than guesstimating. Also if there's any other thing that  
you do as part of mapping that uses disk space you could give that  
number too (though please identify it separately), for example I'm  
giving the compressed audio that I often record as well as photos:

Photos: 2.3G
Audio: 187M

Don't bother with GPX tracks though as these are obviously stored on  
OSM's servers already. I'm not intending to make use of these numbers  
anywhere really, I'm not particularly planning to create an OSM  
equivalent of flickr (though that could be pretty cool), I'm just  
interested to see what the number is :-)

Feel free to just reply to me directly rather than polluting the  
list, I'll give it a few days or a week and post a total.

John