[OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

[m*sh]

Am So, 10.08.2008, 10:35, schrieb Ben Laenen:
> Hi all,
>
> 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.

Actually http supports compression itself.

It may be not as efficient as bz2 (or others) but I don't think that you
gain much benefit when the servers additionally have to gzip the data (or
use another compression algo).

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