On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:27:19AM +1000, steve sgalowski wrote:

i downloaded a australia-oceania.osm.pbf from  http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/, but when i went to un compress it  it says it has to many white spaces and the job crashed . any ideas ?

With what did you try to uncompress the file, and how exactly did it crash? Can you post the stack trace here? Marko