[OSM-dev] Compression types in PBF Format

[Stefan de Konink]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Anthony wrote:

>> Did you benchmark what pbf + lzma did or did you embed lzma in osmosis?
>
> xz uses lzma.  I made an uncompressed pbf file (florida.osm.rawpbf)
> and then compressed it with xz (florida.osm.rawpbf.xz).  This isn't
> the same as making a pbf file which uses lzma, but it should be a good
> approximation of the compression achievable by embedding lzma in the
> pbf.

Yeah, but your lead basically shows we are talking about more than 10%...