Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changing ICAO codes

[Pascal J. B. <pj...@in...>]

Martin Spott <Mar...@mg...> writes:

> Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:49:14 +0000 (UTC), Martin wrote in message 
>> <inuprq$pc4a$1...@os...>:
>
>>> Shapefiles go into a PostGIS database, the "Landcover-DB" behind "The
>>> FlightGear MapServer". Actually it's exactly the same database which
>>> is also holding our 3D Scenery models and, among more stuff, an
>>> import of the OpenStreetMap Planet Dump ....  currently 157 GByte in
>>> total  :-)
>> 
>> ..the last fg-scenery (1.0.1) is 13GB, _roughly_, how much 
>> will your 157GB add to the next version?
>
> I'm talking about raw vector data used for Scenery generation and more
> or less related adventures, this is only partially related to the size
> of the resulting Scenery.
> Nevertheless people should expect the size of the World Scenery to grow
> as detail in land cover increases.

Which is no problem, a 2 TB HD costs less than 100 euro.

And downloading 2 TB on a 50 Mb/s link could take less than 4 days.

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