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Yes the OSM data format is good for editing, but includes everything, and isn't sorted or anything like that. So data consumers process the data, keep what they
by rmc 7y ago
Yes the OSM data format is good for editing, but includes everything, and isn't sorted or anything like that. So data consumers process the data, keep what they need, clean up data, process it and make into whatever format they want/need.
You're right that the 'whole planet' is a lot of data to process, and this can be a barrier. But there are regional extracts of OSM data available (e.g. http://download.geofabrik.de/ http://download.geofabrik.de/ ). So one can always maintain just data for your region
- orblivion 7y agoIt sounds like you're saying that the reason these applications have their own data files is that they tailor it for the application; nothing to do with bandwidth issues. In that case, I don't see how peermaps would make things any different for them.