Philip Fitzsimons wrote: > Hi I'm having problems unzip planet-latest.osm.bz2 > (http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/) > I'ved tried WinZip and 7-Zip but they both stop after about 46gb. I running > this on Vista. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance! > > Figment Engine > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > What tool are you planning to use the planet file with? Many of the tools are built to accept the compressed file as input, as the process of uncompressing the file generally takes a really long time (and eats huge amounts of space as you've already seen). I would check the documentation for the tool to see if it does handle the compressed file first.
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