Hi, there is next splitter bugreport: Splitter r73 europe.osm from today java -Xmx3800m -verbose:gc -jar ../splitter.jar --max-areas=255 --max-nodes=600000 ../../europe.osm [GC 98554K->51194K(99008K), 0.0009550 secs] 12,500,000 nodes processed... [GC 96378K->51194K(96896K), 0.0009430 secs] [GC 94330K->51194K(95040K), 0.0009170 secs] [GC 92410K->51194K(93120K), 0.0009060 secs] [GC 90554K->51194K(91392K), 0.0008910 secs] [GC 88826K->51194K(89728K), 0.0008880 secs] [GC 87162K->51194K(88128K), 0.0008940 secs] [GC 85562K->51194K(86656K), 0.0009170 secs] [GC 84090K->51194K(85248K), 0.0009010 secs] [GC 82682K->51194K(83904K), 0.0008870 secs] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:991) at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:510) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.DivisionParser.startElement(DivisionParser.java:64) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.AbstractXppParser.parse(AbstractXppParser.java:38) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.calculateAreas(Main.java:183) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.split(Main.java:108) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.main(Main.java:87) Paul -- Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. -- Elbert Hubbard