After downloading the latest north america pbf and its md5 sum, I generally try to validate the md5 of the downloaded data with the one available on the geofabrik server. However, this has not been working for quite some time.
Steps:
wget https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5
–2026-02-26 09:21:20-- https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5
Resolving download.geofabrik.de (download.geofabrik.de)… 95.217.45.61, 95.217.63.98, 95.216.245.185, …
Connecting to download.geofabrik.de (download.geofabrik.de)|95.217.45.61|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found
Location: https://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/download.geofabrik.de/north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5 [following]
–2026-02-26 09:21:21-- https://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/download.geofabrik.de/north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5
Resolving ftp5.gwdg.de (ftp5.gwdg.de)… 134.76.12.6, 2a06:93c7:f0::f79
Connecting to ftp5.gwdg.de (ftp5.gwdg.de)|134.76.12.6|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 63 [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5’
north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5 100%[==================================================================================================================================================================>] 63 --.-KB/s in 0s
2026-02-26 09:21:22 (4.29 MB/s) - ‘north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5’ saved [63/63]
wget https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america-latest.osm.pbf
–2026-02-26 09:21:31-- https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america-latest.osm.pbf
Resolving download.geofabrik.de (download.geofabrik.de)… 95.217.45.61, 95.217.63.98, 95.216.245.185, …
Connecting to download.geofabrik.de (download.geofabrik.de)|95.217.45.61|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 18734070219 (17G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘north-america-latest.osm.pbf’
north-america-latest.osm.pbf 100%[==================================================================================================================================================================>] 17.45G 15.5MB/s in 20m 36s
2026-02-26 09:42:08 (14.5 MB/s) - ‘north-america-latest.osm.pbf’ saved [18734070219/18734070219]
md5sum north-america-latest.osm.pbf
c8d9ae8d01d0e49281c87c304d6c5929 north-america-latest.osm.pbf
cat north-america-latest.osm.pbf.md5
e79ed158cd3033a07b9542127d34f1b8 north-america-260224.osm.pbf