I have just updated Osmosis from v0.34 (the latest package on ubuntugis) to 0.40.1 and the speed improvement is amazing, from ~20 minutes per run to 4-5 to do:
bzcat ~/Downloads/OSM/england-120225.osm.bz2 | ~/osmosis/bin/osmosis \ --read-xml enableDateParsing=no file=- \ --tf accept-ways highway=* \ --used-node \ --write-xml ~/Documents/gis/Feb25-2012/highway-120225.osm well done mick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk