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: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > 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 > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
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