[OSM-dev] HTTP OSM Server - index

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:49:00 +0100, Dick Marinus <dick at mrns.nl> wrote:

> Currently I'm writing the index generator in C by using libbz2 and
> libexpat. As it takes a while to parse an 5GB bz2 file I'm trying to be
> able to resume the process half way. I'm thinking of using libcurl to do
> the HTTP work for me.

What data-structure are you using for the index?
Are you aware that such indice already exist if usingthe
OsmBin data-format created via osmosis instead of the xml?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin%28file_format%29

Regards,
Marcus