Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

BartB wrote:

Lambertus wrote:

2. Maybe this idea was mentioned before but I missed it - how about pre-generating most popular countries maps and upload them to file sharing service like hotfile or rapidshare? It would certainly free a lot of bandwidth, disk and CPU usage from your server.

Good idea, but I want things to be fully automated, because otherwise it costs me way too much time. So I'll check it out and see if things can be scripted.

Maybe you could make torrents for the popular country maps, so other people could help sharing them?

That has been mentioned before, but I don't think torrents will be very helpful for two reasons (correct me if I see this wrong):
- The maps are updated frequently, so older ones are outdated quickly which doesn't make it likely that there will be many seeders.
- The server will have to be a seeder which doesn't alleviate it from it's biggest burden: disk space.

I think secondary hosts which run this website (or part of it) for map generation, of download servers for predefined maps are a better solution then torrents.