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

[Michal Migurski]

PBF is also a more efficient file structure to read data from than compressed XML.

-mike.

On Dec 22, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Simon Poole wrote:

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> 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)?
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> Simon
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> 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.
>> 
>> -mike.
>> 
>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Parveen Arora
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