[OSM-talk] tile rendereing total space

Frans Thamura frans at meruvian.org
Fri Jan 6 10:53:36 GMT 2012


wow, my space only 1TB

what happen if anyone click the server ;) out of space... :)

how big is openstreetmap harddisk anyway :)

sound my server will in problem.



On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2012-01-06 11:28, Frans Thamura wrote:
>>
>> hi all
>>
>> anyone have try to make all tiles render, without we have to click the
>> mapnik/map
>>
>> we have full total planet for global, and wanna to make the tile
>> render, so everyone that come to new map, (never clicked before), can
>> see the map, without have to reset
>>
>> can help?
>>
>> and what will the total space used for this
>
>
> [1] states that the average tile size of all tiles is 633 bytes and the
> total number of tiles is 91,625,968,981. That comes to a grand total of 53
> TB of diskspace. Not sure if this is practical.
> To limit the diskusage you can symlink all ocean tiles. Given that about 30%
> of the earth is not covered by water you would still need about 16TB to keep
> all tiles.
>
> The same pages says that on z18 only 0.9% of all tiles have ever been
> viewed. You may want to decided to generate z17 and z18 only in specific
> places, that will reduce diskspace by 75% also.
>
> [1] <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Disk_Usage>
>
> Maarten
>
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