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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by antome on Saturday July 16, 2016 @07:36AM (#12106011)
OSM wiki says "XML variant over 666GB uncompressed, 49.1GB bz2 compressed and 31.1GB PBF at 2016-03-20". Not sure where the 120GB comes from.
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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by ungzd on Saturday July 16, 2016 @07:52AM (#12106053)
He imports only Europe from geofabrik.de dumps, not whole planet.
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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by spapas82 on Saturday July 16, 2016 @07:42AM (#12106027)
Maybe because he drops some info from the file (he keeps only the roads) ?
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Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server by brianshaler on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:08AM (#12106220)
A sizable chunk of that is probably database indexes.
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