[Openstreetmap] ontology, money

[Dan Brickley]

* Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> [2005-03-20 13:35+0000]
> 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.

GZip works well for XML. 

Dan