Chris Browet wrote: > We all have the same problem: the XML OSM format is not efficient for > mobile devices. > For the time being, we all develop our own solution to transform the XML > in whatever binary format suitable for a mobile application, often > forcing the user to use a specific desktop application for the > transformation.
May be WAP WAP Binary XML (WBXML) encoding [1] would be a possible solution? It significantly reduces the size of data to be transfered while keeping the compatibility to the current data format. The transportation could be still HTTP or a different binary protocol with a higher efficiency. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wbxml/ Jan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
