[OSM-dev] Timestamp in PBF files

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:17:59PM -0600, Scott Crosby wrote:
> How many nodes in the planet lack a latitude or longitude? Using a MAXINT
> encoding will cost about 8 bytes for each missing latitude or longitude.
>  It's possible to reduce this to 2-3 bytes, but the format gets
> uglier/hackier. IMHO, probably not worth that cost.

I just counted those cases. In the history dump from October 2012 there are
2344 nodes without coordinates. Hardly worth thinking about...

Maybe we should just remove them alltogether?

Jochen
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