Am So, 10.08.2008, 10:35, schrieb Ben Laenen: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if it's possible to download data from the API in a > (bz2/g)zipped format? This would be much more kind to bandwidth since a > 10MB file for the plain data can be easily compressed to under 1MB.
Actually http supports compression itself. It may be not as efficient as bz2 (or others) but I don't think that you gain much benefit when the servers additionally have to gzip the data (or use another compression algo). -- -m*sh- ___________________________________________________ | harry w. graner |mail: hy [_at_] sha-mash [_dot_] de |--------------------------------------------------- [public gpg-key on request] take a look at my blogs: http://sha-mash.blog.de _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk