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rdtsc on April 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How big is the Google Earth database?

I understand that compared to raster images vector data for roads is negligible. A dinky Garmin car nav system from 2011 I had held continental US road system data in a few gigs only.

Doctor_Fegg on April 11, 2016 [–]

OpenStreetMap's vector data for roads (and buildings, landuse, etc.) for the whole world is currently 31GB, in OSM protobuf format: http://planet.osm.org

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