[OSM-talk] Osmosis error with multiple bouding boxes

[Brett Henderson]

Lambertus wrote:
> Thanks for answering so quickly. I have had some advice on the IRC from TomH 
> and Bobkare and others to use the tee utility with an adapted version of the 
> planetosm-excerpt-area.pl script (that can handle stdin data). So far that 
> seems to work alright (haven't seen the actual results yet though) but it 
> looks promising. However, let that not stop you from implementing the tee 
> functionality in Osmosis, because that would e.g. allow Windows users to 
> have the same functionality. I might also change back to Osmosis when 
> tee-ing is possible.
>   
No worries, I think I'll get it working soon but I had to add support 
for tasks with multiple outputs.  Not a big deal but required some 
additional plumbing.

I'm actually a bit confused over how using the tee utility with 
planetosm-excerpt-area.pl helps you.  Are you piping the output of a big 
box into the smaller boxes to reduce parsing overhead?

As an aside, osmosis can also read/write from/to stdin/stdout if 
necessary by using the /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout "files".
> If you implement the tee functionality please allow for an 'unlimited' 
> number of consumers as in my current setup I need already 150+ and that 
> number can easilly grow :)
>   
Okay, shouldn't be too difficult.

Cheers,
Brett