[mkgmap-dev] Split planet error

Mon Jan 18 20:57:51 GMT 2010

On 01/15/2010 02:37 PM, Chris Miller wrote:

> unpacker we're using isn't all that great... If you're sure the planet file 
> is OK and suspect the bz2 code is at fault, you could uncompress the planet 
> file (assuming you have a spare 140GB or so!) and try again.

You were right, the bz2 code was the problem.

A workaround for people without 140 GB spare disk space:

bzip2 -cd planet-100106.osm.bz2 | gzip > planet-100106.osm.gz

The resulting gz file can be processed by the splitter.