One more thing that I currently noticed though is that
the coastlines
used with mapnik are not stored in the postgis database but instead uses
a separate set of shapfiles[2]. As these are 500Mb in size, it brought
me over my quota limit. Is there a data directory where these could be
put so that everyone can access them?
They're already there, stored in
/home/project/o/s/m/osm/data/world_boundaries
Peter