[OSM-talk] using SRTM contours when editing

[Steve Hill]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote:

>> Time to buy a bigger hard drive? :)
>
> 330GB free... :-)

I draw your attention to my back-of-an-envelope estimates: 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-March/024316.html  :)

> It all hums along nicely at the moment, but might not with a 250GB
> contours table... need to investigate this before jumping in

Yes, some good points there that I hadn't considered.  The piste map is 
running on a somewhat less impressive server (an 8-way Xeon running a Xen 
virtual machine that has 1.5 gig of RAM and 200 gig of disk allocated to 
it) so I won't be trying it any time soon. :)

  - Steve
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