Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Ratcliffe
Hi Scott I am adding support for your binary format to mkgmap itself (not the splitter). Now I've done enough refactoring of the XML reader to allow me to start I have a few questions. 1. Is there an final name for the format and the jar file? 2. Is there an 'offical' download location for a

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-13 Thread Scott Crosby
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Steve Ratcliffe st...@parabola.me.uk wrote: Hi Scott I am adding support for your binary format to mkgmap itself (not the splitter). Excellent! Thank you. Now I've done enough refactoring of the XML reader to allow me to start I have a few questions. 1.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-13 Thread Johann Gail
I have used *.bin as an extension, but I am open to suggestions. I find *.bin a little general. Most of files are bin. I would suggest instead *.osm.bin A abbreviation of the phrase 'protobuf binary format' would give *.pbf. Both from 'ProtoBuF' and from 'Protobuf Bin Format'. The more

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Ratcliffe
On 13/09/10 17:55, Scott Crosby wrote: Not yet. There are too many 'osm binary formats'. I asked for suggestions on osm-dev yesterday and got 'protobuf binary format'. Do you have any ideas? Not really, I'm calling it osmprotobuf at the moment... I have not thought about how one might

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-13 Thread Scott Crosby
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Steve Ratcliffe st...@parabola.me.uk wrote: Its needed because mkgmap takes all kinds of input files and I don't want the user to have to say what the file format is, I just want mkgmap to work out the file format and use the correct reader. I do this by

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-12 Thread Clinton Gladstone
On Sep 9, 2010, at 19:55, Scott Crosby wrote: The format is stable, but I want to release one more RC, with a full validation before I declare it stable. I expect no incompatible changes. Is this the binary format in discussion: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin(file_format) I had

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-12 Thread Scott Crosby
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Clinton Gladstone clinton.gladst...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 9, 2010, at 19:55, Scott Crosby wrote: The format is stable, but I want to release one more RC, with a full validation before I declare it stable. I expect no incompatible changes. Is this the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Miller
Hello Jeffrey, Thanks very much for this. It's likely to be a while before I get a chance to look at and apply these sorry, but hopefully will find some time next weekend. Perhaps in the meantime if you have a current build of the splitter that includes these patches you could make it

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-12 Thread Scott Crosby
My internal repository has several independent development threads. Only one of them is the binary format. The other development threads included patches that are already in and some have not been benchmarked/tested thoroughly. * The binary format. * Improved double writing for XML output. *

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-09 Thread Scott Crosby
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Chris Miller chris_overs...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Jeff, Scott Crosby posted a message to this list back in June asking for comment on his binary format. My thoughts at the time were that it looked rather promising and adding support for it to the splitter would

[mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
Now that Osmosis is getting support for a binary format, is there anyone working on getting binary support into the splitter and mkgmap? I could take a look, but I'm not much of a Java hacker... -- Jeff Ollie ___ mkgmap-dev mailing list

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-08 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Jeff, Scott Crosby posted a message to this list back in June asking for comment on his binary format. My thoughts at the time were that it looked rather promising and adding support for it to the splitter would be a good idea, though I was reluctant to use it other than internally if the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Binary OSM file support?

2010-09-08 Thread Steve Ratcliffe
some huge benefits to be had from going that route. Perhaps Scott, Steve and co can chime in with their thoughts on the topic and where they see things heading from here? I am entirely in favour of supporting the format. Most importantly, it seems to me, in splitter, but in mkgmap too. I'll