Md5sum of the latest north america pbf not matching

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

Would be faster if you ask them directly GEOFABRIK // Contact

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