[OSM-dev] Filename extensions for OSM files

[Jochen Topf]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:13:37AM +0200, Peter Körner wrote:
> Am 10.05.2011 22:31, schrieb David Paleino:
> >On Tue, 10 May 2011 20:58:40 +0200, Peter Körner wrote:
> >
> >>Frederik mentioned mime-types, I'd suggest (not knowing if I'd break any
> >>convention using multiple + symbols):
> >>
> >>application/x-osm+xml for .osm
> >>[..]
> >
> >I'd suggest we should also implement some magic(5) lines for file(1).
> 
> Well, that would only work if you could differentiate between osm,
> osh and osc files by looking at the first lines.
> 
> osm-files have an <osm ../>-tag, osc-files start with <osmChange
> ../> but osh-files are, currently, only osm-files with a
> visible-attribute on each entity - so no way to distinguish them
> from osm-files.

We should probably introduce an attribute on the <osm> tag that says that
this is a history file. Just as we are currently discussing for the PBF
version.

Jochen
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