diff --git a/plugins/input/osm/basiccurl.cpp b/plugins/input/osm/basiccurl.cpp
index ef8c32f4e..021eacfff 100755
--- a/plugins/input/osm/basiccurl.cpp
+++ b/plugins/input/osm/basiccurl.cpp
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ CURL_LOAD_DATA* grab_http_response(const char* url)
 
 CURL_LOAD_DATA* do_grab(CURL* curl,const char* url)
 {
-    CURLcode res;
     CURL_LOAD_DATA* data = (CURL_LOAD_DATA*)malloc(sizeof(CURL_LOAD_DATA));
     data->data = NULL;
     data->nbytes = 0;
@@ -48,7 +47,10 @@ CURL_LOAD_DATA* do_grab(CURL* curl,const char* url)
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, response_callback);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, data);
 
-    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+    CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+    if (res !=0) {
+        std::clog << "error grabbing data\n";
+    }
 
     return data;
 }
diff --git a/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.cpp b/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.cpp
index 5ac6e85f4..dd121a36d 100644
--- a/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.cpp
+++ b/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.cpp
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ feature_ptr postgis_featureset::next()
 
         totalGeomSize_ += size;
 
-        int num_attrs = ctx_->size() + 1;
+        unsigned num_attrs = ctx_->size() + 1;
         for (; pos < num_attrs; ++pos)
         {
             std::string name = rs_->getFieldName(pos);
diff --git a/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.hpp b/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.hpp
index 80c011c83..013a7de0f 100644
--- a/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.hpp
+++ b/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_featureset.hpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ private:
     boost::shared_ptr<IResultSet> rs_;
     context_ptr ctx_;
     boost::scoped_ptr<mapnik::transcoder> tr_;
-    int totalGeomSize_;
+    unsigned totalGeomSize_;
     int feature_id_;
     bool key_field_;
 };