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

[Stefan de Konink]

Chris Browet wrote:
> 
>         Or you can leave "blanks", to be reused...
> 
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
> My concern is regarding indices/pointers from the nodes/ways. How do you 
> envision them, practically?

The practical solution is just double buffering. Have an extra file that 
is the mapping between the strings files LEN [STRING], and index -> 
position.


Stefan