On 23/11/10 11:06, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote: > It seems that all files from planet.openstreetmap.org are in .bz2 > format. Why using it instead of xz? xz can compress (usually) more > than bz2 and is way faster to compress/uncompress.(1) I'm sure that > there are other sources that report the same info. Please, consider xz > as a possibility. It would decrease the space needed, the time used to > make the planets and the bandwith use.
Because bz2 is far more widely supported by tools and libraries that people might wish to use to read the data. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
