[OSM-talk] [Spam] Re: Alternatives to wikipedia?

[Tom Hughes]

Peter Miller wrote:

> Finally, lets not be frightened about the cost of another box and the 
> hosting because terrabytes and gigabytes are really cheap these days. We 
> have just bought a box with 7 Terrabytes of disk storage and it cost 
> <£100 per terrabyte. We are also about to import all 1,000,000 of photos 
> of geographic features in the UK  from Geograph (all CCBYSA) to see how 
> it copes.

Monetary cost is, I agree, not the issue. Time costs for development, 
maintenance and administration are.

I think we should stick to doing one thing well and rather than trying 
to do lots of things and not managing to do any of them well.

Tom

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