On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:30:52PM +0200, Roland Olbricht wrote: > To make it even clearer: being cut off the XML planet means that Overpass API > will starve for some month until I have implemented the quite complex file > format PBF, and with it some hundred frustrated users, just to mention one > tool.
You'll probably need a few hours to switch to using Osmium for file reading which already does XML and PBF file reading and writing for you. In the general case we should move away from everybody reading the files themselves. Developers should use libraries for that. That makes their software more robust and it is easier to support new formats. That being said I agree that we first should look at the download numbers and not switch off the XML format without a long warning period. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
