You should use the PBF Format. It compresses better than XML + generic compression and is faster to use. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PBF_Format
Jochen On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 09:48:53AM -0500, john whelan wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:48:53 -0500 > From: john whelan <[email protected]> > To: OpenStreetMap talk mailing list <[email protected]> > Subject: [OSM-talk] Compression formats > > Which is the most effective compression type for .OSM files? > > I'm running Windows 64 bit. Bzip2 and 7-bit seem comparable but at the > back of my mind I thought there was something a bit more specialised. > > Thanks John > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
