[osmosis-dev] Announcement of the OSMbin file-format

[Brett Henderson]

Good stuff!

I'd like to play with the dataset support in particular.  A persistence 
mechanisms that doesn't rely on a full database would be very useful.  
 From your docs on the Osmosis/DetailedUsage page it looks like you 
don't have full dataset support yet.  Is that something you plan to add?

There are so many OSM toys to play with these days I don't know where to 
begin ...

Looking at the Osmosis/DetailedUsage wiki page there might be a few 
typos.  I haven't fixed them because I'm not 100% sure how the tasks work.
* The --read-osmbin task says "Write to a directory ...".  I assume it 
should be reading instead.
* The --dataset-osmbin task also says "Write to a directory ...".  If 
it's the same as other dataset tasks it would be read-only.
* The --dataset-osmbin task has inPipe.0 consuming an entity stream.  
Should it be producing a dataset?
* The --read-osmbin task has inPipe.0 but I assume it should be outPipe.0.

marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello fellow devlopers,
>
> I'd like to announce the availability of the final Version 1.0
> of the OSMbin file-format and its reference-implementation.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin(file_format)/version_1.0
>