Shawn Rutledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jay Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I hope you come up with good data for India. I always wanted to >> have a map of the entire world available in my pocket, so maybe we get >> closer and closer to that .. ;) > > planet.osm.bz2 is 4.2 gigs now, but that's why there are 8 gig microSD > cards I guess. :-) Of course being unindexed XML you don't have time > to parse and render that much data. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet.osm
That can easyle be compressed to much smaller size for mapping/routing purpses. The osm xml format is very redundant and verbose. I would call it a export format not a usable data format for embedded apps. -- Drucken Sie diese Mail bitte nur auf Recyclingpapier aus. Please print this mail only on recycled paper. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community