> I also became interested in the concept of local world knowledge apps. In principle, the data size of meaningful packs of information about the whole world is not that large. Compressed English wikipedia (without media) is only 27 GB. OpenStreetMap's planet.asm is 2.2 TB, though you can doubtlessly prune that down to 1-10% of its size and have everything you might conceivably need.
We need more of these types of apps; the challenge is keeping it updated and synced with new information.
We need more of these types of apps; the challenge is keeping it updated and synced with new information.