Comment on Immich relies on a third-party service that seems shady to me
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month agoI don’t understand why it even needs to connect to OSM servers. Download the maps locally and plot the points locally.
I am not an IT expert though…
computergeek125@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OSM’s core tile servers have dozens of cores, hundreds of GB of RAM each, and the rendering and looks databases are a few TB. That’s not trivial to self host, especially since one self hosted tile server cannot always keep up with a user flick scrolling.
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
When I use Organic Maps, I download the parts of the map I need (my country). Is there a reason something like Immich couldn’t do something similar?
It’s hundreds of MB per map section, but I have hundreds of GB of photos so it would be a drop in the bucket.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Only reason is it’s hard to do
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
TBF osm tile servers have the task of providing immediate feedback to the mappers editing osm. The immich map doesn’t need to update live, redrawing each tile like once a month would be fine
computergeek125@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A static PNG tile database for world.osm is even larger. Without a solid vector tile solution, this is the most efficient data format for disk space.
Also, there’s a post render CDN cache in front of the rendering layer to offset load, plus there’s I think some internal caching in renderd. It’s a pretty complex machine, but databases of the world are in fact huge.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
You could probably save a lot of space by throwing out the higher zoom levels. Level 16 or 17 should be plenty to mark where a photo was taken