Hi, one could download and extract in one step and make this faster: wget -O - http://photon.komoot.de/data/photon_data_021_150112.tar.bz2 | bzip2 -cd | tar x or via pbzip2 wget -O - http://photon.komoot.de/data/photon_data_021_150112.tar.bz2 | pbzip2 -cd | tar x Regards, Peter