On Sunday 10 August 2008, Tom Hughes wrote: > Ben Laenen wrote: > > 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. > > It is compressed if your user agent indicates that it supports > compressed transfers.
Hmm, I was hoping more for some extra tag attached to the url... So, how should I do that when I use wget to download the data? I have shell scripts to download data automatically and wget is by far the easiest way to do that, but can't find any documentation for that. Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
