Hi all, the attached patch adds the option --handle-element-version with three possible values "keep", "fake", and "remove". With "remove" (the default) splitter works like r428, means, the version of OSM elements is not written to the output files, I also did not notice any changes regarding performance. With "keep" splitter writes the version that is found in the input file. With "fake" splitter sets the version to 1. I am not sure what to do when the input file(s) contain elements without (or invalid) version info and option keep is used. Another special case is the pbf format: Since r428 splitter always writes version 1 for nodes, this was a work-around for a problem in the JOSM pbf plugin. This is still done even with --handle-element-version=remove A last special case: with output=xml and --handle-element-version=keep or fake splitter will write api version 0.6 instead of 0.5 A binary based on r428 is available here: http://files.mkgmap.org.uk/download/291/splitter.jar Please let me know what you think about this change. Gerd <http://files.mkgmap.org.uk/download/291/splitter.jar>