[OSM-dev] Release candidate for OSM binary format is in osmosis trunk.

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Wed Sep 22 13:34:44 BST 2010


Hi,

Anthony wrote:
> Mine would be that I don't feel like installing osmosis+java.

I'm sure we'll get a pure C/C++ implementation sooner or later; even so, 
there certainly will be people who don't "feel like" installing it.

> Another problem would be if osmosis doesn't support piping the output
> xml to stdout.

It does support piping the output XML to stdout.

> I'd hope there would at least be a reference implementation in C
> before the existing standard was removed.
> I'm not sure exactly what files it is we're talking about changing, though.

Yes, maybe that was my fault for not making this clear; I am only 
talking about the files that are now being made available on the 
geofabrik.de site. I'm pretty sure that the original planet file will 
remain .osm.bz2 for quite some time.

Bye
Frederik



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