Great work Frederik ! thanks again for your extracts! On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fabio, > > > 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. >> > > We have introduced a new binary format that compresses far better than even > xz, so if you're willing to install extra software for uncompressing data, > go with the new pbf format. Extracts on the download.geofabrik.de site are > already available in .osm.pbf, and sonner or later the full planet file will > be, too. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org
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