As we are starting to use the full history dumps more and defining a PBF version for them, the question of the filename extenstions (suffixes) used for the different kinds of OSM files came up.
Currently the following extensions are used for OSM files in XML format: .osm -- for normal OSM files .osc -- for "diff" OSM files The full history dumps on planet.openstreetmap.org also use the .osm extension. That is a bit confusing. Because there are always special programs needed to interpret the data, we should have a different extension. I propose to use the extension ".osh" for this. This follows the precedent set by .osc. Opinions? Now for the PBF format extensions. Currently .pbf or .osm.pbf are used. The latter is a bit strange, because it seems to imply that .pbf is some sort of compression or conversion of a .osm file (like .osm.bz2 is a compressed version of .osm). I would be relatively straightforward to use .osc.pbf and .osh.pbf for the (still to be specified) PBF versions of those files. Or we could remove that strangeness and use some other scheme: .bosm, .bosc, .bosh (b for binary) ? .pbf, .pbfc, .pbfh ? Opinions? Ideas? Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
