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

Andy Robinson (blackadder) blackadderajr at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 12 17:09:20 GMT 2008


John McKerrell wrote:
>Sent: 12 February 2008 4:58 PM
>Cc: Talk Openstreetmap
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio
>
>
>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.
>

Yeah, 5GB per year per user is going to be the max and most users probably
will get nowhere near that. All those that have replied so far are notable
data contributors.

Cheers

Andy

>John
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