[OSM-dev] Known good version of planet.osm

[Paul Norman]

On 3/31/2015 4:13 AM, William Temperley wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I wonder if someone could point me to a recent version of planet.osm 
> that has been loaded successfully with Osmosis into the postgis 
> snapshot schema, please?
>
> The previous two versions (planet-150316.osm.bz2 and 
> planet-150323.osm.bz2) are giving me an error:
> "org.apache.xerces.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid 
> byte 2 of 4-byte UTF-8 sequence."
I'm downloading one of those to check, but are you sure it's a problem 
with the planet file and not Osmosis? Did you check the md5sum of what 
you downloaded?

In either case, you should not be using the bzipped XML but should 
instead use a PBF, which is much faster to process.