[OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

[Tom Hughes]

Ben Laenen wrote:

> So, how should I do that when I use wget to download the data? I have 
> shell scripts to download data automatically and wget is by far the 
> easiest way to do that, but can't find any documentation for that.

I'd be quite surprised if a popular client like wget didn't already do 
it, but it will also decompress it automatically so the fact that the 
network traffic is compressed will be transparent.

Tom

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