Hi, > | Given that #relations < #ways < #nodes, and you (generally) need to > | know about all the relations before you process the ways, and you need > | to know which ways you are interested in before deciding which nodes > | to keep - would it not make sense to dump the relations into the file > | first, followed by the ways, then the nodes last?
[...] > The obvious solution to me would be to abandon the monolithic planet > file altogether or at least provide separate files for nodes and > ways, Do we really need that? My take on this would be: 1. anyone who has not enough hard disk space for a decompressed planet shouldn't be working with it anyway; 2. once you have a decompressed planet, it is a matter of a few seeks and reads to find the byte offset in the file where ways and relations begin (binary search in text file). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
