[OSM-dev] Problem with geofabrik datasets?

[Andreas Kalsch]

I started the script with yesterday's Great Britain PBF and today's Germany PBF, and there was no 
error. It seems there was an error in yesterday's Germany data. It would be worse if that happended 
with changesets.

Am 12.12.10 12:07, schrieb 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
>