Hi Eric,

what options do you use to update your map? If you download eg. germany.osm.pbf and later
execute osmupdate.exe without a germany.poly you add all changes of planet to your
osm file.

Does that help?
Gerd

> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:31:26 +0000
> From: zeb@zebulon.org.uk
> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: [mkgmap-dev] Map size increase using osmupdate vs download
>
> Hi,
>
> I am unsure this is the best place to post this, but have a question
> regarding creating maps with osm maps updated with osmupdate. I
> usually start from an .osm.pbf map downloaded from Geofabrik, and in
> order to avoid downloading it again, I use osmupdate to maintain it
> (or a converted .o5m version of it) up to date. I noticed that my maps
> were becoming bigger and bigger, days after days, but *bigger than a
> plain redownload* of the map on Geofabrik.
> 1. Is this normal? Does osmupdate just append the changelog to the
> original file?
> 2. mkgmap-produced maps become significantly bigger too: is it normal too?
> 3. If the changelog is just appended to the map, is there a way to
> rebuild it from scratch to get the same map than on Geofabrik?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Eric
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