On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:59:54 +0100 Fabio Alessandro Locati <fabioloc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> > wrote: > > We have introduced a new binary format that compresses far better > > than even xz, so if you're willing to install extra software for > > uncompressing data, go with the new pbf format. Extracts on the > > download.geofabrik.de site are already available in .osm.pbf, and > > sonner or later the full planet file will be, too. > Awesome, but I haven't found a way to uncompress it. > > PS: My question raised because my 4 cores PhenomII computer has > downloaded for more than 11 hours and is uncompressing since 4 hours > ago the planet with full history and haven't finished yet ;) If you have multiple cores, pbzip2 might be of interest: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ Daniel _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
