Agreed, but most of what you would want to do with grep is possible with other tools like osmosis, osmconvert and osmfilter that work much faster on pbf and o5m files. Also, how much is a 500GB (or however big it is unpacked) human readable file really worth?
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM, yvecai <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/05/2012 06:13 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> Lastly, from my narrow POV, we could do away with the XML full planet >> altogether. For smaller regions it makes sense, but if you want to >> process that much data you should not be looking at XML anyway. > > XML is still human-readable, or at least grep-readable with such big files. > Yves > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev -- martijn van exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
