[OSM-dev] Problem with geofabrik datasets?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Andreas Kalsch wrote:
>    This problem occurs with the current germany.osm AND pbf ( 
> 11-Dec-2010 ) in the latest developer releases (24xxx):

The exception you report occurs while unpacking the PBF file. Are you 
saying that if you download and use the .osm.bz2 you are seeing the same 
problem?

There's reason to believe that *something* is not 100% right with the 
Geofabrik PBF files because I have had complaints from a number of 
Windows users (exclusively) saying that when they try to process the PBF 
with the mkgmap splitter they get only nodes in their output files. Also 
a guy on talk-de complained that something as simple as

osmosis --read-pbf europe.osm.pbf --write-xml europe.osm

aborts somewhere down the node section, without any error message, and 
correctly closing the output file with "</osm>" - again, under Windows. 
I don't know if your probem and that reported by the Windows users are 
related. I am using Osmosis r24507 to create the PBF files, and pbf2osm 
to create the bz2 files later.

Bye
Frederik

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