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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore by lallysingh on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:48AM (#21783155)
The moat's draining because more of this data is becoming commodity.

OpenStreetmap data is quite good. I can run a local instance with all the data and the tile server and a web server in a docker image in maybe ~10 min. Source: did this a few years ago during a particularly boring meeting.

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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore by maxerickson on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:38PM (#21786275)
What do you mean when you say "all the data"?

The full planet takes "a while", even on a huge computer:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql/benchmarks

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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore by lallysingh on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:50PM (#21786722)
I recall something like an 8gb download that uncompressed to a postgresql db.
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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore by maxerickson on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:08PM (#21786830)
The thing benchmarked in my other comment loads an OSM dump into PostGIS (in 1 particular format, translating the OSM data from an editing/versioning friendly format to something more useful for map making as it goes). The current full planet dump is 84 GB:

https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

8 GB gets you a large region still, depending on how much mapping has been done:

http://download.geofabrik.de/

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