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> And each time I read a post like this I wonder: what do these people _do_ with these machines? To give you an idea, I don't have Macs, but I have a beefy des
by jmnicolas 5y ago
> And each time I read a post like this I wonder: what do these people _do_ with these machines?
To give you an idea, I don't have Macs, but I have a beefy desktop because I run my own OpenStreetMap server on it.
My old machine: i7 3770, 32GB ram, 1 TB sata SSD: 3 days to import Europe's map.
The new one: Ryzen 5800, 32GB ram, 1 TB NVME: 10 hours to import Europe's map.
I will probably need to upgrade my ram and NVME capacity if I want to build a world map.
- tpxl 5y ago> because I run my own OpenStreetMap server on it. What do you do with it?
- liotier 5y agoGenerate map tiles, throw lots of queries at a local Overpass API, run custom large-scale analysis, develop a geocoding service, serve routing calculations... Many applications that public servers will let one query at sample scales, but for which serious use requires setting up one's own servers.
- dylan604 5y agoWhatever they want. It's theirs.
- jmnicolas 5y agoI'm mainly generating map tiles for offline use. I don't want to hit OSM official servers, this is too intensive (and they would probably block me).