[OSM-dev] New OSM binary fileformat implementation.

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Scott Crosby <scrosby06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to announce code implementing a binary OSM format that
> supports the full semantics of the OSM XML. It is 5x-10x faster at
> reading and writing and 30-50% smaller; an entire planet, including
> all metadata, can be read in about 12 minutes and written in about 50
> minutes on a 3 year old dual-core machine. I have implemented an
> osmosis reader and writer and have enhancements to the map splitter to
> read the format. Code is pure Java and uses Google protocol buffers
> for the low-level serialization.
Thats very interesting. Would like to see this working with c++ as
well. Will have to look at the code.
thanks for sharing,
mike