diff --git a/build-scripts/regions/big_indexes.xml b/build-scripts/regions/big_indexes.xml
index 88a33342c6..6ce7db53c9 100644
--- a/build-scripts/regions/big_indexes.xml
+++ b/build-scripts/regions/big_indexes.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	<regions siteToDownload="http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/{0}.osm.pbf" region_prefix="" skip="false"	region_suffix="">
 		 <region name="south-america" esize="22"/>
 	</regions>
-    <regions siteToDownload="http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/europe/{0}.osm.pbf" skip="false" region_suffix="_europe">
+    <regions siteToDownload="http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/europe/{0}.osm.bz2" skip="false" region_suffix="_europe">
 	     <region name="france" esize="1820"/> 			 			            
     </regions>