[OSM-talk] Speaking of daily change files...

Blaž Lorger blaz.lorger at triera.net
Mon Jul 20 16:34:27 BST 2009


On Monday 20 July 2009 00:49:32 John Smith wrote:
> In the last week or so there has been dumps that osm2pgsql fails to parse
> due to garbage characters, I even tried the -u switch for kicks, but unless
> I manually intervene and clean things up osm2pgsql refuses to deal with it.
>
> Pretty sure I'm using the latest version, or near to it, was downloaded
> about the 1st.
>

I have same problem. I guess it is advisable to quickly check planet change 
file with osmosis before you attempt to apply it.
Like so:
	osmosis --read-xml-change 20090718-20090719.osc.gz --write-null-change

This way you at least get result (location of "bad" character) very quickly.





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