[Openstreetmap] ontology, money

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 12:03, David Cantrell wrote:
> 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?

I just thought it was a good compromise between readability and ease of use 
(XML over HTTP) and bandwidth (minimising the number of tags). However the 
idea of gzipped XML messages does sound good.

Nick