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@googlemail.com> Aan: "Development list for mkgmap" <mkgmap-dev@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