[OSM-dev] Osmosis woes, something not right - can someone pls. see why?

[Karl Newman]

2008/7/25 Fire Girl <firegirl at amorous.com>:

>
> Hey, that is great -- and Cheers!
>
> When you get back, it would be interesting to find out, what kinda of
> results you get from a two stage extraction, using the same commands,
>
> java.exe -jar osmosis.jar" --rx "planet-latest.osm.bz2"
> enableDateParsing="YES" --lp interval="600" --bb left="-108" right="-36"
> top="90" bottom="0" --wx "segment_earth.osm"
>
> and then,
>
> java.exe -jar osmosis.jar" --rx "segment_earth.osm" enableDateParsing="YES"
> --lp interval="600" --bb left="-75" right="-73" top="42" bottom="40" --wx
> "new_york_area.osm"
> ^^^ this is what is yielding a 27 MB file from the 2.5 GB segment_earth.osm
> slice, when according to my test doing this above same command & parameters
> against a planet.osm yielded almost a 1.3 GB file :|
>
> I mean, it is pretty clear I got a very slimmed down segment_earth.osm
> extraction.... left="-108" right="-36" top="90" bottom="0", is a pretty big
> cross-section which yielded 2.5 GB.  Which is totally confusing since I got
> 1.3 GB from left="-75" right="-73" top="42" bottom="40", ... a tiny 2 degree
> cross segment!  This is driving me nuts! haha
>
> BTW, can you perform this test on a Windows Machine like I am? :))
>
>
I'll give it a shot, too on my Windows laptop (I have a copy of planet) once
I get to work. One thing I would recommend is that you get a new version of
Osmosis and then stop using the very slow date parsing. The new version just
preserves the dates as strings.

Karl
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