[OSM-dev] Binary OSM; the first pass encoder

[Chris Browet]

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>> Or you can leave "blanks", to be reused...
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> You are now trying to solve the fragmentation issue in every filesystem ;)
> I think that blanking out the values with \0 could be solution for it. And
> allow on local side to 'defrag' the file so that LEN \0\0\0\0 ->  0.
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My concern is regarding indices/pointers from the nodes/ways. How do you
envision them, practically?
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