[mkgmap-dev] error splitting binary files & splitter is extreme slow

Fri Dec 24 11:31:16 GMT 2010

Until 2 Dec. everything went ok with splitting the binary europe extract.
Splitting took me about 1 hr on a modest laptop (windows vista). After 2 December
there were some problems with the country extracts as well, but they were solved.
It looked like they did some changes with the europe.osm.pbf because since that date
I'm not able to split it anymore, nor with splitter nor with osmosis.
When I try to split the europe.osm.pbf only pois are extracted in a few minutes time.

Since the introduction of the pbf file something got changed with the europe.osm.bz2
extract as well. Normally it took me about 2 hrs to split the data, but since
october they published the pbf file, splitting times of europe.osm.bz2 extract went
up to >7 hours!

See also http://www.mail-archive.com/mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk/msg07071.html

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Henning Scholland" <h.scholland at googlemail.com>
Aan: "Development list for mkgmap" <mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk>
Verzonden: Vrijdag 24 december 2010 11:37:32
Onderwerp: Re: [mkgmap-dev] error splitting binary files

Hi
It was discussed on osmosis-dev ML. There was just a differenc in some bytes
in the beginning of a working file and the not working file of Geofabrik.
The part which includes the data was exactly the same. No one knew why one
file doesn't work on windows.

Regards,
aighes