[OSM-dev] New OSM binary fileformat implementation.

[Andreas Kalsch]

What about some metrics (performance, size)? Data is the same, whether 
binary or not. So binary really has to pay off significantly.

Am 01.08.10 13:39, schrieb Brett Henderson:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com 
> <mailto:erjohan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Brett Henderson <brett at bretth.com
>     <mailto:brett at bretth.com>> wrote:
>     > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Frederik Ramm
>     <frederik at remote.org <mailto:frederik at remote.org>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Scott, others,
>     >>
>     >> Scott Crosby wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> I would like to announce code implementing a binary OSM format
>     that
>     >>> supports the full semantics of the OSM XML.
>     >>
>     >> [...]
>     >>
>     >>> The changes to osmosis are just some new tasks to handle
>     reading and
>     >>> writing the binary format.
>     >>
>     >> [...]
>     >>
>     >> This was 3 months ago.
>     >>
>     >> What's the status of this project? Are people actively using
>     it? Is it
>     >> still being developed? Can the Osmosis tasks be used in the new
>     Osmosis code
>     >> architecture (see over on osmosis-dev) that Brett has
>     introduced with 0.36?
>     >
>     > I'm curious about this as well.  The main reason for me
>     introducing the new
>     > project structure was to facilitate the integration of new
>     features like
>     > this.  They're relatively easy to add (some Ant and Ivy foo
>     required ...),
>     [...]
>     > The code hasn't changed a lot, but the build processes have.
>
>
>     Well that's one of the thing Scott said he had no clue on how to do.
>     >From Scotts mail:
>
>
>
>     Scott Crosby:
>     > // TODO's
>
>     > Probably the most important TODO is packaging and fixing the
>     build system.
>     > I have no almost no experience with ant and am unfamiliar with java
>     > packaging practices, so I'd like to request help/advice on ant
>     and suggestions on
>     > how to package the common parsing/serializing code so that it can be
>     > re-used across different programs.
>
>
> I'll help incorporate this into the rest of Osmosis.  There's a few 
> things to work through though.
>
>     * Is there a demand for the binary format in its current
>       incantation?  I'm not keen to incorporate it if nobody will use it.
>     * Can the code be managed in the main OSM Subversion repo instead
>       of GIT?
>     * Is any code reuse between Osmosis and other applications
>       required?  If only the Osmosis tasks will be managed in the
>       Osmosis project and a component with common functionality
>       managed elsewhere then I need to know how the common component
>       will be managed and published for consumption in Osmosis.
>
> Brett
>
>
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