[OSM-talk] Why bz2?

[Mike Dupont]

Great work Frederik ! thanks again for your extracts!

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Fabio,
>
>
> Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote:
>
>> It seems that all files from planet.openstreetmap.org are in .bz2
>> format. Why using it instead of xz? xz can compress (usually) more
>> than bz2 and is way faster to compress/uncompress.(1) I'm sure that
>> there are other sources that report the same info. Please, consider xz
>> as a possibility. It would decrease the space needed, the time used to
>> make the planets and the bandwith use.
>>
>
> We have introduced a new binary format that compresses far better than even
> xz, so if you're willing to install extra software for uncompressing data,
> go with the new pbf format. Extracts on the download.geofabrik.de site are
> already available in .osm.pbf, and sonner or later the full planet file will
> be, too.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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