[OSM-dev] Compression types in PBF Format

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Wed Dec 1 04:03:44 GMT 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
> If any of gzip/bzip2/lzma in the general give better compression ratio's
> (20% smaller), then this compression scheme should become the default
> format.

Depends on the performance.  If all you want is max compression
without regard to performance, you're almost surely better off using
raw and then compressing the entire file with LZMA (e.g. 7zip or xz).



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