[OSM-dev] 'My first OSM experiences' - PDA Mapping software and the OSM mobile binary protocol

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:44:58 +0100, "Marcus Wolschon" <Marcus at wolschon.biz>
wrote:
> 2009/1/6, Oliver Ford <osm at oliford.co.uk>:
>> PS: Just as I'm signing this off I've stumbled over the
>> 'OSMbin(file_format)' wiki page. Is that format related to the OSM
>> Mobile binary somehow? Is one more developed/used than the other, has
>> one been abandoned?
> 
> It is not related to OSM-MB at all.
> It is another binary-format I am currently specifying version 1.0 of
> that can be used with the next API-version (0.6).
> It is optimized for different scenarios then osmmb.
> I am currently debugging it's reference-implementation.
> As stated on the wiki-page of it, it is not ready yet but  making
> good progress. (95% done).


I added some clarifications to the wiki-page
on the Osmbin-format. (What it is intended for,
what the status is and that it is not related
to this "osm mobile binary protocoll".)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin(file_format)

Marcus