[OSM-dev] Exhaustion of 32bit signed integer range expected this year

[Sven Geggus]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Software processing OSM data will need to either use unsigned integers 
> (which can be problematic in cases where negative values are also 
> required), or switch to 64bit integers altogether.

Or used for other purposes like in osm2pgsql. Will the upcoming licence
change add a delay to this problem?

Sven

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