<div>Thanks - I really appreciate the help! : )</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, I tried that & osmosis complained again. I'm going to try to generate the data using strictly osmosis (instead of osmconvert & osmfilter) & see what happens.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>$ osmosis --read-pbf planet-natural.pbf --tee 2 --write-pbf one.pbf --bb left=-180 right=180 top=90 bottom=-90 clipIncompleteEntities=true --write-pbf two.pbf</div><div>Jan 3, 2013 6:06:22 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis run</div>
<div>INFO: Osmosis Version 0.40.1</div><div>Jan 3, 2013 6:06:22 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis run</div><div>INFO: Preparing pipeline.</div><div>Jan 3, 2013 6:06:22 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis run</div>
<div>INFO: Launching pipeline execution.</div><div>Jan 3, 2013 6:06:22 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis run</div><div>INFO: Pipeline executing, waiting for completion.</div><div>Jan 3, 2013 6:15:50 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.pipeline.common.ActiveTaskManager waitForCompletion</div>
<div>SEVERE: Thread for task 1-read-pbf failed</div><div>java.lang.NullPointerException</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.util.ArrayList.<init>(ArrayList.java:131)</div><div>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.domain.v0_6.Way.<init>(Way.java:166)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.domain.v0_6.Way.getWriteableInstance(Way.java:361)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.WayContainer.getWriteableInstance(WayContainer.java:79)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.areafilter.v0_6.AreaFilter.emitWay(AreaFilter.java:288)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.areafilter.v0_6.AreaFilter.process(AreaFilter.java:203)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.WayContainer.process(WayContainer.java:60)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.areafilter.v0_6.AreaFilter.process(AreaFilter.java:116)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.tee.v0_6.EntityTee$ProxySinkSource.process(EntityTee.java:124)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.tee.v0_6.EntityTee.process(EntityTee.java:70)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at crosby.binary.osmosis.OsmosisBinaryParser.parseWays(OsmosisBinaryParser.java:172)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at crosby.binary.BinaryParser.parse(BinaryParser.java:121)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>at crosby.binary.BinaryParser.handleBlock(BinaryParser.java:68)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at crosby.binary.file.FileBlock.process(FileBlock.java:135)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>at crosby.binary.file.BlockInputStream.process(BlockInputStream.java:34)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at crosby.binary.osmosis.OsmosisReader.run(OsmosisReader.java:37)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)</div>
<div>Jan 3, 2013 6:15:50 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis main</div><div>SEVERE: Execution aborted.</div><div>org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.OsmosisRuntimeException: One or more tasks failed.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.pipeline.common.Pipeline.waitForCompletion(Pipeline.java:146)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis.run(Osmosis.java:92)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis.main(Osmosis.java:37)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:47)</div><div>$ </div></div><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<div class="im"><br>
<br>
On 03.01.2013 21:02, Jeff Meyer wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Most of what I can find about this on the intrawebs indicates that this<br>
is typically a bbox-related issue, but I haven't used any bboxes to<br>
create my planet-natural file. (see steps below)<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
It seems that you somehow managed to drop a node that is referenced by something.<br>
<br>
Try this:<br>
<br>
osmosis --read-pbf planet-natural.pbf --tee 2 --write-pbf one.pbf --bb left=-180 right=180 top=90 bottom=-90 clipIncompleteEntities=true --write-pbf two.pbf<br>
<br>
This will create two files which, if you have *no* dangling references, will be identical (and my hypothesis would then be wrong). If the files are not identical then the second will be minimally smaller, as objects in the second file that contained references to missing objects will have had those references deleted.<br>

<br>
The second file will then be safe to import.<br>
<br>
If the second file should turn out to be *much* smaller then it would make sense to make a diff (either write to xml and use unix diff, or use Osmosis --derive-changes) and find out what the problem is.<br>
<br>
My hunch is that you encountered something like a node tagged natural=wood (there are 25k of them) which was also a member of something you wanted to keep, and then you dropped that node or so.<br>
<br>
Bye<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Frederik<br>
<br>
-- <br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1">Jeff Meyer<br>Global World History Atlas<br><a href="http://www.gwhat.org" target="_blank">www.gwhat.org</a><br><a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org" target="_blank">jeff@gwhat.org</a><br>
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