[Openstreetmap] ontology, money

[David Cantrell]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:

>                ... I'm thinking that, in terms of transferring data between 
> OpenStreetMap and its clients ... the size of the XML-RPC message would need 
> to be as small as possible to minimise bandwidth.

If you care at all about minimising bandwidth, why use XML at all?

In fact, even if you don't care about minimising bandwidth, why use XML?

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