[OSM-talk] OSM server on a (Ubuntu) VM?

[john whelan]

In general databases and Virtual machines do not work well together.
Databases tend to want fast disk accesses and the virtual machine bit slows
these down.  Also typically virtual machines restrict the memory and
databases use the memory to reduce disk accesses so you get a second hit
there.  Virtual machines work better for lightly loaded cpu intensive work.

Cheerio John

On 21 December 2010 06:50, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails_port  will help with
> installing the main application.
> There are, of course, more pages on the wiki which can help, some of
> which are linked to from that page.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 21 December 2010 00:12, Arlindo Pereira
> <openstreetmap at arlindopereira.com> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I'm planning to build with OpenStreetMap some historic, out-of-copyright
> > maps (such as [1] and [2]). They would feature many things (such as
> streets,
> > mountains and beaches) that do not exist anymore. AFAIK, this kind of
> data
> > is not supposed to live on the main OSM server.
> > So, I'd like to ask: what is the easiest way to build a OSM server? I'm
> > thinking about running the database and mapnik on a virtual machine
> > (preferably Ubuntu Server, since I already use Ubuntu on desktop), and
> > upload only the tiles and OpenLayers to a regular Apache server. A
> > copy-and-paste sequence of apt-gets would be perfect - I couldn't find it
> on
> > the wiki.
> > My idea is to create a page similar to [3], being the left side the
> > historical map and on the right the current OSM map.
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Arlindo "Nighto" Pereira
> > 1: http://www.bondesrio.com/fotos/mapas/mapa_linhas_1878.jpg
> > 2: http://www.bondesrio.com/fotos/mapas/mapa_linhas_1907.jpg
> > 3: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/
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