[OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 23 11:57:38 BST 2011


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> SomeoneElse wrote:
>
>> Odd.  zoom in to the dizzy heights of 16 (in Denmark WA FWIW) and you get
>> "picture coming soon".   I picked Denmark because it's somewhere that I've
>> been and added stuff (to OSM, but would also like to see the likes of FOSM
>> using that same data too).  Competion is good.  It seems a bit of a shame
>> that the forkers are being let down by a rather poor implementation (or so
>> it seems) so far.
>>
>
> Just be patient. The world on zoom level 18 has 100 billion tiles with an
> estimated data volume of 450 terabytes. It takes a while to upload them all
> to archive.org!
>


There is no need to render oceans and deserts at high resolution, but cities
and interesting places. We will be rendering and uploading as people are
donating resources, if you want your stuff rendered, then you can also help
find some computers to help do it.

mike
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