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<p>Hello, I'm Fernando, from the OSM-Ar community.</p>
<p>First of all, thank you for taking this into consideration.</p>
<p>For your information, we were running on a humble VPS with the following specs:</p>
<p>1Gb RAM <br />60GB HDD<br />1 core<br />500GB of BW</p>
<p>This setup wasnt really enough, low RAM made on-the-fly rendering quite slow, not handling concurrency nicely, if at all. As the HDD is 60GB caching turned virtually useless, the elevated inodes usage constantly filled the disk.</p>
<p>Anyway, at least doubling this specs (not the BW), while implementing new techniques and stack might be enough for the mid term.</p>
<p>We only serve tiles from Argentina, so our DB has only the Geofabrik extract from this country.</p>
<p>Its not exactly a mirror, as we introduce minor changes in the style, symbols, and localization. [1]</p>
<p>On the other hand, we constantly "represent" OSM, and FOSS4G when government authorities or representatives show interest on these, wich is quite usual lately. We are a healthy community working on this matter constantly. We love FLOSS and Open Data.</p>
<p>We aim to get incorporated in the Local Chapters proposal, but we still are a community, not a legal entity. [2] [3] </p>
<p>About the software:</p>
<p>OS: Debian 7</p>
<p>mapnik<br />osm2pgsql<br />postgresql - postgis<br />tilestache<br />nodejs, node-mapnik, tile-live, cartocss<br />nginx </p>
<p>Also note that I can fully manage the server, so a fresh Debian is all we need.</p>
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<div>[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Argentina</div>
<div>[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters</div>
<div>[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Agreement</div>
<p>For the sake of brevity Ive ommited lots of details on what we do and can do, but I'll be glad to clear further doubts. </p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Fernando Sanz</p>
<p>El 2014-03-20 13:08, Alex Mandel escribió:</p>
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<pre>On 03/20/2014 05:11 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:</pre>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">On 2014-03-19, 2:24 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I'm all for finding a way to help but I'm not sure putting stuff on an OSGeo machine is the right answer. If the data is really "for" Argentina and other local countries a closer server location would be helpful, something in South America. I'm wondering if one of the OSGeo-ICA labs might be able to help. <a href="http://www.geoforall.org/locations/">http://www.geoforall.org/locations/</a> I am open to discussing further collaboration with the OSM community though. I expect there to be some mutually beneficial arrangement. Thanks, Alex</blockquote>
I am aware of Geo4All, as I am heavily involved in it. I will of course ask; however I was hoping that OSGeo and our infrastructure could help out the OSM community in this case. -jeff</blockquote>
<pre>Do we have specs for what the needs are?
Disk space, web traffic load?
Given how much trouble we have keeping Vmap0 tiles from overloading or
resources, I'm not sure we have the capacity to serve high volumes of
tiles on the current hardware.
I'm also a little confused about what the local OSM mirrors do in
relation to the main OSM infrastructure which is well funded?
Thanks,
Alex
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