[OSM-newbies] problems unzip planet-latest.osm.bz2

[Brian Quinion]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Philip Fitzsimons <philip at hilltown.info> wrote:
> Hi I'm having problems unzip planet-latest.osm.bz2  (http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/)
> I'ved tried WinZip and 7-Zip but they both stop after about 46gb. I running this on Vista. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

I've just downloaded this file from the same place and it was fine so
most likely it has become corrupt during the download.  You might want
to check the md5sum of the file you downloaded to verify this - a
quick google search turned up this tool for windows:
http://www.md5summer.org/

Because of the size of the file I'd suggest downloading it with rsync,
rather than just trying again, which will guarantee a correct
download.  Looking around this is available for cygwin (under windows)
which is probably your best bet - although it would involve installing
quite a few random bits of software to get this working.

You can then download the planet file using:

rsync rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/planet-081126.osm.bz2 .

Hope this helps,
--
 Brian