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

[paul youlten]

Is there any reason that we can't use Flickr to host photographs? they
seem to be fans of OSM:

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/08/12/around-the-world-and-back-again/

PaulY

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> 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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