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James Hollingshead | 22 May 2011 19:21

[MoNav Dev] Incompatible data file changes.

I've been doing some work on the qtile rendering today. There are a couple
of things that are going to need changing in the database file:
	- Current files are limited in size to 4GB as the index offets are only
      stored in 4 bytes. (in fact some client code limits them to 2GB by
      using signed long, but this could be fixed)
	- Files this size (eg. the whole of Europe is c.6GB) might be problematic
      on some systems, so it would be good to allow the DB split across several
      smaller files.
    - The index wastes 8bytes/index entry in redundant information
    - There is no place in the format for adding streetnames

This is going to need a change to an incompatible fileformat. Can I just make
the change and bin the old code (forcing everyone to update their map files),
or do you want legacy code left in for a changover period?

James

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Christoph Eckert | 22 May 2011 20:09

Re: [MoNav Dev] Incompatible data file changes.

Hi James,

nice to meet you :) .

> This is going to need a change to an incompatible fileformat. Can I just
> make the change and bin the old code (forcing everyone to update their map
> files), or do you want legacy code left in for a changover period?

I've just created a branch for my UI changes. We can then decide whether and 
when to merge them into tip/head.

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Christian Vetter | 22 May 2011 23:34

Re: [MoNav Dev] Incompatible data file changes.

Hi,

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:21 PM, James Hollingshead <james <at> hollo.org> wrote:
> This is going to need a change to an incompatible fileformat. Can I just make
> the change and bin the old code (forcing everyone to update their map files),
> or do you want legacy code left in for a changover period?

I think we can break the file format for 0.4. When somebody wants to
generate an older map he should use 0.3.x to do so.

Regards,

Christian

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Christoph Eckert | 22 May 2011 23:50

Re: [MoNav Dev] Incompatible data file changes.

Hi,

> I think we can break the file format for 0.4. When somebody wants to
> generate an older map he should use 0.3.x to do so.

"as we are at it": How often do you think that we should update the map 
material? OSMers want their map material in realtime, that's out of the 
question. However, the german OSM server often is at its limits, and so I 
think we should be "lazy" unless people really request up-to-date map 
material.

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Beste Grüße,
Best regards,

ce