Hi Gerd, Thanks for the fix, I will test it out. I tried Hennings approach but splitting seemed to last much longer because it analyses the whole EU extract and I only need the Benelux plus a small area of France and Germany. Splitting wasn't completed and threw out this error: warning: --keep-complete is only used for the first input file. New way id 195314 is not higher than last id 264955883 Maybe the IDs are not sorted. This is not supported with keep-complete=true or --problem-list I'll try now r320.
I've committed r320 to fix the loop problem.
You can specify multiplie input files, but you have to make sure that each file contains ids which are higher than all previous ones. I think this is the case with your address files.
The reason for the loop was a way in a mp-relation for which no nodes were found. I guess this is caused by using osmconvert without the parameters --complete-ways --complex-ways
I am not sure what's faster: Using osmconvert with polygon first or only splitter with multiple input files. When all files are in o5m format, single run with splitter should be quite fast.
Gerd