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

[Jason Reid]

Philip Fitzsimons 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?
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> Thanks in advance!
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What tool are you planning to use the planet file with? Many of the 
tools are built to accept the compressed file as input, as the process 
of uncompressing the file generally takes a really long time (and eats 
huge amounts of space as you've already seen). I would check the 
documentation for the tool to see if it does handle the compressed file 
first.

-Jason Reid