[OSM-dev] Full History Extracts

[Sterling Quinn]

Peter Körner <osm-lists <at> mazdermind.de> writes:

> 
> Hi
> 
> I made fresh history extracts [1] from the new full-history dumps [2].
> If you miss your region or want a small custom tailored area, just drop
> me a line or follow the instructions at [3] to split the file yourself.
> 
> Regards, Peter
> 
> [1| <http://osm.personalwerk.de/full-history-extracts/2014/2014-01-06/>
> [2] <http://planet.osm.org/planet/experimental/>
> [3]
> <https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-renderer/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md>
> 

Hello Peter. These extracts look very useful for my project which only
focuses on some areas in the western hemisphere. I am trying to convert the
Central and South American histories (which are relatively small) to .osm
XML. I ran the following Osmosis command (which works fine on an osm.pbf non
history file):

osmosis --read-pbf c:\data\OSMdownloads\central-america.osh.pbf --write-xml
c:\data\OSMdownloads\CAmerica.osm

This immediately failed and it looks like the crux of the error message is:

"SEVERE: Thread for task 1-read-pbf failed
org.Openstreetmap.osmosis.core.OsmosisRuntimeException: File requires
unknown feature: HistoricalInformation"

I am wondering if this is an issue with the history extract file, or am I
going about this task the wrong way?

Thanks for any help,
Sterling