Hi all, I think r524 in the refactoring2 branch is ready for trunk. Major changes compared to r476 in trunk: - it is faster because it uses an additinal thread for the reader (as long as the max-threads option is not 1) and some other optimizations, esp. in the o5m parser. I think 20% can be expected because of this. - the limit in the area "dictionary" (65535) was removed, it is now > 2.147.483.648 which should be enough for a long time ;-) The change was possible due to optimizations in the map structures, the memory footprint is very close to r476, possibly even smaller in most situations. - the max-areas limit is now 9999, the default is now 2048 instead of 512. - invalid options are no longer changed to default values. Splitter will stop instead. - in some cases the split algorithm finds a better split (fewer tiles) for a given max-nodes value. - fewer stdout messages about map contents If I hear no problems I'll merge next monday. The link to the latest binary can be found at the bottom of this page: http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/splitter.html Gerd