The planet is compressed with a multi-threaded bz2 to make the generation faster.
Shaun On 6 Apr 2010, at 23:09, Werner Hoch wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm currently playing on a random access tool for compressed osm files. > > While my tool works fine for all files from > http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/, I've problems with the latest > planet file. > > While all files from geofabrik are only single bz2 streams it seems that > the planet consists of several independant streams that have many "end > of stream" in the middle of the bz2 file. > > After recompressing the planet with > bzcat planet-latest.osm.bz2 |bzip2 >planet-recoded.osm.bz2 > I can read the created planet-recoded with my script now. > > Does anyone know what is in the planet? > Which tool is used to compress the planet? > > Links: > Fileformat of bz2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2#File_format > > Regards > Werner (werner2101) > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
