[SGVHAK] Internet in a Box Project: Anyone want to help?

[Braddock]

On 02/10/2013 02:14 PM, Joshua Haglund wrote:
> I recently setup an open street map server. It takes a lot of 
> resources to render the tiles from the

Yes, OSM is very resource hungry.  I've done a lot of work on the 
OpenStreetMap data and think I have mapping all set for this project.

I actually got the entire map rendering stack set up and running on the 
ARM wireless harddrive, but it was hopelessly slow (2-5 minutes to 
render each tile).

So I ended up using about a month of processing time on my server to 
pre-render the entire globe to 30 ft resolution, and then scripted up 
rendering of populated places to 15 ft resolution.  Ends up taking only 
about 130GB for the tile images (vs the 350GB for the actual database, 
which seems wrong).

By the end I had bought a second computer with 16GB RAM and a 500 GB SSD 
just so it could handle the OSM dataset. (helps with the Wikipedia 
dataset too).

-braddock

> map data, which takes a lot of resources just to hold (like 300GB for 
> the whole world). If you pre-rendered the tiles I suspect it'd be even 
> bigger.
>
> Your project sounds cool tho! If there's a code repo, I'd like the link!
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com 
> <mailto:braddock at braddock.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     For months I've been spending spare time on my Internet-in-a-Box
>     project.  There is still a lot to do, and I was wondering if
>     anyone wants to volunteer to help.
>
>     The concept:
>     Convert a Seagate GoFlex Satellite wireless harddrive (possibly
>     solar powered) into a portable offline "internet" hotspot with
>     most(?) of the world's Free knowledge and information.  Ship to
>     schools and villages in the developing world (I have contacts from
>     my old Wikipedia Reader project).  Accessible via low end smart
>     phone, tablet, or PC.
>
>     I am aiming to provide:
>
>     -World-wide maps down to street level (OpenStreetMap)
>
>     -Complete Wikipedia in a dozen languages
>
>     -Tens of thousands of Project Gutenberg texts in multiple languages
>
>     -Most of the world's Open Source software - complete Ubuntu
>     repository mirrors including source code.
>
>     -Hundreds of hours of Khan Academy instructional videos (CC)
>
>     -More?
>
>
>     Many things remain to be done, for example:
>
>     -Evaluate and integrate a faster Wikipedia solution which can work
>     well on the (slow) Satellite (128MB RAM ARM)
>     -A mobile-friendly Project Gutenberg browser
>     -A mobile-friendly video browser
>     -A mobile-friendly Open Source software browser
>     -Cross-domain search functionality and content indexing
>     -More?
>
>     Platform is a chroot ARM Debian on the Satellite using Python and
>     Flask as glue.
>
>     I'm determined to have this ready to go by April.
>
>     thanks,
>     -braddock
>
>

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