Overpass API developpement

[Roland Olbricht <>]

Hi,

> I applied the patches from minor_issues to my backend_compression branch
> and built following
> http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Overpass_API/install#Installation
>
> I imported by doing:
[...]
> I'm seeing some space gain   from about 11GB -> 9 GB
[...]
> Most of my space usage is from the nodes.map file which hasn't changed
> - it is possible or feasible to compress the map files also?

Thank you for the tests and the documentation.

It revealed that the nodes.map is for smaller installations really the 
showstopper. The file has for all subsets of the OSM data roughly the 
same total size, and I decided that the 8 GB are of minor important from 
the perspective of the world database.

After reconsidering the issue, I think it is possible to add code to do 
the compression on the nodes.map file as well. The two possibilities are 
that I either do that myself, which may takt until at least end of March 
because I have scheduled FOSSGIS preparations and the server move right now.

Or somebody else will adopt the code from the .bin file storage. I'll do 
my best to help and then merge the result immeidately into the 
backend_compression branch.

Best regards,

Roland