[OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

[Robin Paulson]

On 2 March 2011 00:42, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, you will not need a very big machine. I am currently rendering
> Italy (similar in size to NZ) and it takes around 2 days with a really

haha. italy has 14 times the data of NZ, so i guess we can reduce that
time somewhat...

> lame laptop (3 GB RAM, Intel Core2 Solo U3500 @1.4 GHz) for Zoomlevels
> 0-15 (one day for Level 0-14) and a quite complex stylesheet.

excellent, this is looking more like the sort of hardware i imagined

cheers for the advice guys

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robin

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