[talk-au] Running stats against GPX files ...

Sam Couter sam at couter.id.au
Tue Jun 23 22:31:18 BST 2009


John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 23/6/09, Graeme Wilson <wanderer55 at live.com.au> wrote:
> > I also think that the GPX file is too verbose with all the
> > XML formatting, and reckon that it will fill up the servers
> > with too much unnecessary stuff. I have been told that for
> > copyright purposes, all the data etc that is uploaded is to
> > be kept forever. Lot of redundant stuff there.

It's true that XML is very verbose. However all that verbosity
compresses extremely well, so it's not really a significant problem.
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