[mkgmap-dev] output of splitter isn't recognized by JOSM

Wed Oct 28 11:11:43 GMT 2009

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM,  <stefan at binaervarianz.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know why the output of splitter is not recognized by JOSM?
>
> Is there a way to make splitter produce outputs that are compatible to
> normal .osm files like the ones downloaded by geofabrik?
>
> I would really like to use splitter to cut a country into managable chunks
> for offline editing in JOSM.
> Or wouldn't this work of other reasons I don't know yet?

You should use osmosis for splitting up files for editing, not
mkgmap's splitter. The mkgmap splitter is designed to split up data
for Garmin map generation, not editing (and it may damage it).