[mkgmap-dev] Binary format update

Thu Sep 16 18:33:27 BST 2010

Hi Steve,

that was a quick implementation!

I haven't tried so far the new binary format. I haven't found a download 
for the osmprotobuf.jar. Is there any? Download links should be added to 
the documentation and the website if the changes are merged back.

I had some thoughts if the splitter is still needed with this new 
format. The website of the new protocol tells me that the operation
getNodesbyBoundingBox(north,south,east,west) is supported. So it should 
be possible to start mkgmap with the bbox definition of all tiles (like 
the areas.list file of the tile splitter) and a planet dump file?  The 
splitter work could be reduced to generate a reasonable areas.list file. 
Are there any objections on this?

Thanks for you work, Steve!
WanMil

> Hi
>
> The changes to read Scott Crosby's binary format are complete (for
> mkgmap itself) and I will merge them back soon.
>
> Before that it would be good for as many people as possible to try
> it out on their existing XML files, with the options that they
> normally use, since the code has been completely restructured.
>
> I've run a number of test that show that the results exactly the same
> between the new and current trunk version of mkgmap.
>
> I'm not so worried about testing the binary input, since it is new and
> won't affect anyone if there are bugs.  It won't be that useful until
> splitter is able to output the format directly anyway.
>
> The amount of code required for the new format was very small once the
> existing code was restructured though and seem to work very well.
>
> The found actual time to read the file was cut in about half, however
> the time to read the input file is now a small percentage of the
> total run time of mkgmap, so the overall speed increase is small.
> The main benefit will be with the splitter and the disk space
> requirements.
>
> ..Steve
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