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

[Mike Collinson]

At 05:57 PM 12/02/2008, John McKerrell wrote:

>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

Home now.  For 2007: 9.7GB / 15,000 photos.  BUT I take massive amounts of POI pictures along with street-signs so you'll probably want to discount this figure!

Mike
Stockholm