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

Tom Higgy higgy-lists at bandnet.org
Sun Feb 10 19:47:43 GMT 2008


Photos: around 4GB

John McKerrell wrote:
> 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
> 
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Tom
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