> And once we take into account that if we manage to build pbf2osm into > processing tools like osm2pgsql (which I hear Stefan is working on), that > will get rid of XML parsing, things will again improve considerably.
The new format is definitely worth the trouble to integrate into the tool-chain. Parsing .pbf files is much faster than parsing XML. I used the same OSM file for Bavaria and imported it in MoNav: osm.bz2: 178s osm.pbf: 15s Greetings Christian Vetter _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
