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[Rory McCann <rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/11/09 09:49, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> Open Street Map Planet file: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
> 
> -Bryan

I thought about that. However the people I'll be sending this to aren't
that technologically advanced, so a 6GiB compressed XML file isn't very
useful to them.

I discovered a programme (navit) that can read from it's own compressed
file format and display maps. However the latest version of it doesn't
work with the whole OSM planet dump
(http://blog.technomancy.org/2009/7/13/osm2navit-doesn-t-work-with-the-latest-osm-planet-dump
)

I've heard that to generate all the tile images for OSM takes up several
terabytes, so that's not an option.

Do you have any ideas of how to make a better offline OSM format?

Rory

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