osmium Command Examples

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 {{path/to/output.osm}}

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

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

• Extract a geographic region by a GeoJSON file:

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

• Filter all objects tagged as "restaurant":

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

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

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

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

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