> You can also strip out all of the data/tags which you are not interested > in rendering. > > Obviously you would not want to upload any of this 'tainted' data back > into the OSM database.
If you do now want to edit, just use the data to display a map (and perhaps do some routing, etc ...., you need less data (no created_by or other useless tags and things like highway=residential can be translated to some index into specific lookup table) GpsMid (app to display OSM maps on a cellphone and route in them) can take ~72Mb bzipped dump and produce ~36Mb .jar with the app and (almost) all the "usable" data in the OSM. So maybe there is some way to get 6.2 GB planet dump and produce some ~3Gb file that would contain entire OSM in a manner that would allow easy displaying and perhaps routing. Though nobody have written such program yet :) Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
