[OSM-talk] Making an offline OpenStreetMap CD/DVD ?

[John Smith]

--- On Thu, 2/7/09, simon at mungewell.org <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
> Distilling this down to a way which is 'not more than 5m
> away' from the
> original might save a considerable amount of space.
> 
> You can also strip out all of the data/tags which you are
> not interested
> in rendering.

Or you could use some binary format that reduces all the bloating produced by xml.