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

John McKerrell john at mckerrell.net
Tue Feb 12 16:57:54 GMT 2008


On 11 Feb 2008, at 08:13, Michael Collinson wrote:

> At 11:29 PM 2/10/2008, Andy Robinson wrote:
>> On 10/02/2008, Thomas Walraet <thomas at walraet.com> wrote:
>>> Andy Robinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I started taking photos in March 2006. Since then I've taken 14,000
>>>> photos taking up 10GB of space.
>>>
> I bought a 5 megapixel camera with x3(?) optical zoom so that I could
> snap street signs across wide-ish streets.  After some tests, I also
> settled on 2 megapixels as the ideal size before pixelation sets in.
> It results in an average of 0.5 MB per picture.
>

But what's your total? I think I've had about 10 replies so far so I  
think we'll just need around 20G somewhere to be able to host an OSM  
flickr at this rate.

John




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