[OSM-dev] Full History Extracts

[Jochen Topf]

On Do, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:22:44 +0000, Sterling Quinn wrote:
> 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?

Osmosis doesn't work with history files. You need to use osmium for that.
Old version at https://github.com/joto/osmium, new version at osmcode.org.

Jochen
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