[OSM-talk] Idle thought time, PBF and JOSM

[Simon Poole]

What I haven't seen to yet, is a justification for even contemplating 
this. Is download bandwidth to editing clients even remotely an issue 
(even in not so well developed countries)?

Simon

Am 22.12.2011 17:14, schrieb Michal Migurski:
> +1 on Frederick's suggestion, with the caveat that it should be possible to override the Accept request header with a "?type=pbf" argument or similar.
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> -mike.
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> On Dec 22, 2011, at 5:09 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote:
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>> I like the idea Frederick mentioned, to use standard http techniques for that.
>> That would allow to support different compression algorithms on the server side, while server and client/editor would be able to decide together about the format used.
>>
>> regards
>> Peter
>>
>> Am 22.12.2011 12:39, schrieb Mike Dupont:
>>> of course, there is not anything there. api.openstreetmap.org/pbf/ is
>>> just my suggestion of what we could use instead of>>
>>> api.openstreetmap.org/
>>> mike
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Parveen Arora<mail at parveenarora.in>   wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Mike  Dupont
>>>> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>   wrote:
>>>>> you could also use a different base user or api/pfb or something.
>>>>> api.openstreetmap.org/pbf/
>>>> File not Found at this link.
>>>>
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