[OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format
Jan Peter Stotz
jpstotz at gmx.de
Fri Aug 8 09:17:58 BST 2008
Chris Browet wrote:
> We all have the same problem: the XML OSM format is not efficient for
> mobile devices.
> For the time being, we all develop our own solution to transform the XML
> in whatever binary format suitable for a mobile application, often
> forcing the user to use a specific desktop application for the
> transformation.
May be WAP WAP Binary XML (WBXML) encoding [1] would be a possible
solution? It significantly reduces the size of data to be transfered
while keeping the compatibility to the current data format. The
transportation could be still HTTP or a different binary protocol with a
higher efficiency.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wbxml/
Jan
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