Hi, trying 'bzcat germany.osm.bz2 | java -ea -Xmx2048M -jar ./splitter/splitter.jar --mapid=30000001 --max-nodes=1000000 /dev/stdin' results in an error: Processing 106 areas in a single pass Starting pass 1 of 1, processing 106 areas (30000001 to 30000106) Processing /dev/stdin... Error parsing xml from file org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not r (position: START_DOCUMENT seen r... @1:1) org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not r (position: START_DOCUMENT seen r... @1:1) at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.parseProlog(MXParser.java:1519) at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1395) at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1093) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.AbstractXppParser.parse(AbstractXppParser.java:62) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.parse(Main.java:459) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.processOsmFiles(Main.java:450) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.processMap(Main.java:436) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.writeAreas(Main.java:417) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.split(Main.java:232) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.start(Main.java:121) at uk.me.parabola.splitter.Main.main(Main.java:110) Doing this separately with bunzip2 and splitter it's o.k. Greetings Josef -- PGP Schlüssel: 311D1055 http://keyserver.pgp.com