[mkgmap-dev] Different routing results using osm vs osm.pbf

Wed Oct 20 11:04:46 BST 2010

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:13:37PM +0100, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>But now you mention it I can't think of why there should be a 
>difference, since all the code that matters is common between the two.  
>I'll take a look.

Are the .osm.bz2 and .osm.pbf files identical to begin with? Today, 
Geofabrik offers files with quite different timestamps:

portugal.osm.bz2	20-Oct-2010 00:20 	 13M
portugal.osm.pbf	20-Oct-2010 07:17 	7.1M

Is there a tool that converts .osm.bz2 and .osm.pbf to a canonical 
format? If there is, then you could compare the canonical formats to see 
if the files are truly equivalent.

	Marko