On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:58:31 +0100, Steve Ratcliffe wrote: Hello Steve,

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After renaming the file to data.osm.pbf, it works.

Is this intended? Why is the .osm part needed?

Just because .osm.pbf is the "official" extension name. It can easily be changed to just .pbf. I can't think of any reason why not, can anyone?

Of course, it also would be ok if the splitter would abort with a message like "unknown filename extension". But the message it is currently printing when reading a pbf without .osm part ("only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not \u0 (position: START_DOCUMENT seen \u0...@1:1)") is not really helpful if the only problem is the missing '.osm' in the filename. Michael