Thanks all. Now to have a dig and see what tools are around for creating them and how I can make best use of them.
Cheerio John On 20 December 2011 09:55, Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
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