[OSM-dev] XAPI compressed

[Jonathan Bennett]

On 07/04/2010 21:36, Christian H. Bruhn wrote:
> Is there a way to get compressed data (e.g. bz2) when I start a
> XAPI-query? My internet connection is not that fast, but the OSM-data
> can be easily compressed to 10% of the original size.

As far as I'm aware, the data is output as soon as it's retrieved from
the database, which makes compression somewhat difficult. You wouldn't
get the data any *faster* anyway -- net bandwidth isn't the bottleneck.


-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)