On Apr 17, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Kelly Jones wrote: > I've previously downloaded and bunzip2'd (or at least bzcat'd) > planet-latest.osm.bz2. > > It's great and complete, but has many unnecessary characters (eg, > XML tags). > > Is there a compacter version of this information?
XML is an interchange and archive format, not a format that anybody actually uses inside their application. When gzip or bzip2 compressed, the wordiness of the XML gets compressed away. In your own application, though, you should consider parsing and reformatting the data. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
