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

[Andy Robinson]

On 10/02/2008, John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net> 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
>

I started taking photos in March 2006. Since then I've taken 14,000
photos taking up 10GB of space.

Cheers

Andy


-- 
Andy Robinson