[Merkaartor] Revised OSB (i.e. OSM binary) file format

[Daniel van Gerpen]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:55:40 +0200
"Chris Browet" <cbro at semperpax.com> wrote:

Hi Chris,

> I've just committed a revised version of the "OSB" file format.
> 
> This one allows to "load" huge OSM map with relatively low and constant
> memory footprint by reading the data from disk as needed.
> I've just tested loading all of Belgium on my WinCE in about 5mb :-)
[..]

Found this via planet gnome:

  http://gnomecoder.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/who-wants-desktop-mapping

Regards,
Daniel