On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcus.wolschon@googlemail.com">marcus.wolschon@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:26:18 +0000, "Thomas Wood"<br>
<<a href="mailto:grand.edgemaster@gmail.com">grand.edgemaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 2009/1/6 Oliver Ford <<a href="mailto:osm@oliford.co.uk">osm@oliford.co.uk</a>>:<br>
>> <a href="mailto:marcus.wolschon@googlemail.com">marcus.wolschon@googlemail.com</a> wrote:<br>
>>> I added some clarifications to the wiki-page<br>
>>> on the Osmbin-format. (What it is intended for,<br>
>>> what the status is and that it is not related<br>
>>> to this "osm mobile binary protocoll".)<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin%28file_format%29" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin(file_format)</a><br>
> Binary data formats has been thrashed over several times, often with<br>
> different outcomes (as the number of proposed formats/protocols etc<br>
> show).<br>
><br>
> However, I'm pretty sure that your code would be welcomed by many in svn<br>
:)<br>
<br>
I've talked with Brett yesterday about integrating support for<br>
OSMbin into osmosis. I'll write that code in the next weeks.<br>
One day at a time. ;)<br>
<br>
Marcus<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Heh, I was thinking along those lines, too, but I thought I'd wait until your format stabilizes. It would be quite handy to have a random-access data source for Osmosis without requiring a database installation.<br>
<br>Karl<br>