Intro
For the OpenStreetMap news site weeklyOSM I have created minified RSS feeds with a self-written tool called feed-minifier. This saves a lot of bandwidth when subscribing to that news site.
What are the differences compared to the original weeklyOSM feed?
- The number of weeklyOSM articles in the feed is reduced to only contain the latest edition.
- Flags of the OSM calendar events are replaced with emoticons.
- Language indicator icons for the translation links are replaced by text links with the language code.
- All other images are replaced with a text in square brackets naming the image source URL, the alt text and the image size. This way no images are loaded automatically when loading the RSS item.
- New lines in the source of the article content are deleted.
- HTML comments and CSS classes are removed.
The advantage of all this extra processing of the feed to a minimized version is a reduction of around 90 % in size.
E.g. the feed including the Italian weeklyOSM #754 could be reduced from 360,889 bytes to 31,646 bytes. Additionally, the ten title images are not loaded, e.g. the one for weeklyOSM #754 has a size of 464,872 bytes.
How to get the weeklyOSM feeds?
Head to osm.strubbl.de/weeklyOSM-minified/ and subscribe using the link to the feed for your language.
Discussion, Feedback, Ideas
You can create an issue in the repository or use the thread in the community.osm.org forum.