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osmium — Multipurpose tool for handling OpenStreetMap (OSM) files. More information: <https://osmcode.org/osm

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Problem

How to use the osmium command: Multipurpose tool for handling OpenStreetMap (OSM) files. More information: <https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/manual>.

Solution

osmium — Multipurpose tool for handling OpenStreetMap (OSM) files. More information: <https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/manual>.

Show file information:

osmium fileinfo {{path/to/input.osm}}

Display contents:

osmium show {{path/to/input.osm}}

Convert file format from PBF into XML:

osmium cat {{path/to/input.osm.pbf}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.osm}}

Extract a geographic region by the given [b]ounding box:

osmium extract {{[-b|--bbox]}} {{min_longitude}},{{min_latitude}},{{max_longitude}},{{max_latitude}} {{path/to/input.pbf}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.pbf}}

Extract a geographic region by a GeoJSON file:

osmium extract {{[-p|--polygon]}} {{path/to/polygon.geojson}} {{path/to/input.pbf}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.pbf}}

Filter all objects tagged as "restaurant":

osmium tags-filter {{path/to/input.pbf}} amenity=restaurant {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.pbf}}

Filter for "way" objects tagged as "highway":

osmium tags-filter {{path/to/input.pbf}} w/highway {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.pbf}}

Filter "way" and "relation" objects tagged as "building":

osmium tags-filter {{path/to/input.pbf}} wr/building {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.pbf}}

Code Snippets

Show file information

osmium fileinfo {{path/to/input.osm}}

Display contents

osmium show {{path/to/input.osm}}

Convert file format from PBF into XML

osmium cat {{path/to/input.osm.pbf}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.osm}}

Extract a geographic region by the given [b]ounding box

osmium extract {{[-b|--bbox]}} {{min_longitude}},{{min_latitude}},{{max_longitude}},{{max_latitude}} {{path/to/input.pbf}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.pbf}}

Extract a geographic region by a GeoJSON file

osmium extract {{[-p|--polygon]}} {{path/to/polygon.geojson}} {{path/to/input.pbf}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output.pbf}}

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