<div dir="ltr">This choice was made because to access the new static EPT format, you must use DXYZ keying to read the data files. Therefore it seemed fitting to match the hierarchy notation to the data storage notation. Also, with the new data keying format being a slippy-map tiling, it seemed sensible to avoid mixing it with the old octree-node relative addressing.<div><br></div><div>Comments/criticisms on the format in general are welcome - and feel free to submit issues on that `ept` repository in that regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Connor</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 6:45 PM Daniel Kastl <<a href="mailto:daniel@georepublic.de" target="_blank">daniel@georepublic.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Connor (or Howard),</div><div><br></div><div>We found, that in the EPT format you switched from a list of oct-tree numbers to to a depth-x-y-z format: <a href="https://github.com/connormanning/ept#hierarchy" target="_blank">https://github.com/connormanning/ept#hierarchy</a></div><div><br></div><div>I would be interested to know about the reason for this change (advantages of the new hierarchy/disadvantages of the previous one). I'm not against the change, just curious to learn about the reasons. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Daniel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_5672573927760357838m_-8191919446334119672m_2798411026297091889m_-7221056636284791990gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan<br>eMail: <a href="mailto:daniel.kastl@georepublic.de" style="color:rgb(66,99,171)" target="_blank">daniel.kastl@georepublic.de</a><br>Web: <a href="https://georepublic.info" target="_blank">https://georepublic.info</a></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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