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
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computergeek125@lemmy.world 1 month agoOSM’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.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
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
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