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Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#15926 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Add option to save .osm as .osm.gz by default
| Reported by: | jidanni | Owned by: | team |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Core | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
JOSM can read .osm.gz files, so there should be an option to make it
also write them by default.
That would be much better than the workflow of: Downloading a area.
Then having to gzip it by hand (makes it only 1/10 the size!), and
then the next day, offline, JOSM can open the .osm or the .osm.gz both
just fine anyway.
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Hmm. Many tools use JOSM files and may not support compression, so saving compressed data as default is not so good. Also gzip as well as bzip2 aren't really up-to-date and xz is not supported by everybody (including older JOSM versions), so the default should stay uncompressed.
But you do not need to "gzip it by hand". Simply save it with proper extension like .osm.gz, .osm.bz2 or .osm.xz and you get properly compressed files.