[OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

[Tom Hughes]

Ben Laenen wrote:

> I was wondering if it's possible to download data from the API in a 
> (bz2/g)zipped format? This would be much more kind to bandwidth since a 
> 10MB file for the plain data can be easily compressed to under 1MB.

It is compressed if your user agent indicates that it supports 
compressed transfers.

Tom

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