Ubuntu Manpage: osmium-add-locations-to-ways - add node locations to ways in OSM file

NAME

       osmium-add-locations-to-ways - add node locations to ways in OSM file

SYNOPSIS

       osmium add-locations-to-ways [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE...

DESCRIPTION

Usually only nodes have locations and the ways refer to those locations via the IDs of the nodes. This
program will copy the input file(s) to the output, taking the locations from the nodes and adding them to
the ways. This makes it easier for other programs to assemble the way geometries.

The input file must contain all nodes needed for the ways, otherwise there will be an error. You can
change this behaviour using the --ignore-missing-nodes option.

Nodes without any tags will not be copied (unless the --keep-untagged-nodes, -n option is used). The
size of the output file will be similar or a bit smaller than the input file (unless the
--keep-untagged-nodes, -n option is used in which case it will be a lot bigger).

Note that the OSM files generated by this command use a non-standard format extension.

The osmium add-locations-to-ways command has to keep an index of the node locations in memory or in a
temporary file on disk while doing its work. There are several different ways it can do that which have
different advantages and disadvantages. The default is good enough for most cases, but see the
osmium-index-types(5) man page for details.

If the --keep-untagged-nodes, -n option is used, files created by this command can be updated with the
apply-changes command using the --locations-on-ways option.

This command will not work on full history files.

This commands reads its input file(s) only once and writes its output file in one go so it can be
streamed, ie. it can read from STDIN and write to STDOUT.

OPTIONS

       -i, --index-type=TYPE
              Set the index type.  For details see the osmium-index-types(5) man page.

       -I, --show-index-types
              Shows a list of available index types.  For details see the osmium-index-types(5) man page.

       -n, --keep-untagged-nodes
              Keep the untagged nodes in the output file.

       --ignore-missing-nodes
              If this is not set a missing node needed for a way results in an error.  If this  is  set,  errors
              are ignored and the way will have an invalid location set for the missing node.

COMMON OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show usage help.

       -v, --verbose
              Set verbose mode.  The program will output information about what it is doing to STDERR.

       --progress
              Show  progress  bar.   Usually a progress bar is only displayed if STDERR is detected to be a TTY.
              With this option a progress bar is always shown.  Note that a progress bar  will  never  be  shown
              when reading from STDIN or a pipe.

       --no-progress
              Do  not show progress bar.  Usually a progress bar is displayed if STDERR is detected to be a TTY.
              With this option the progress bar is suppressed.  Note that a progress bar  will  never  be  shown
              when reading from STDIN or a pipe.

INPUT OPTIONS

       -F, --input-format=FORMAT
              The  format of the input file(s).  Can be used to set the input format if it can't be autodetected
              from the file name(s).  This will set the format for all input files, there is no way to  set  the
              format for some input files only.  See osmium-file-formats(5) or the libosmium manual for details.

OUTPUT OPTIONS

       -f, --output-format=FORMAT
              The  format  of  the  output  file.   Can  be  used  to  set the output file format if it can't be
              autodetected from the output file name.  See osmium-file-formats(5) or the  libosmium  manual  for
              details.

       --fsync
              Call fsync after writing the output file to force flushing buffers to disk.

       --generator=NAME
              The name and version of the program generating the output file.  It will be added to the header of
              the output file.  Default is "osmium/" and the version of osmium.

       -o, --output=FILE
              Name of the output file.  Default is '-' (STDOUT).

       -O, --overwrite
              Allow  an  existing  output  file to be overwritten.  Normally osmium will refuse to write over an
              existing file.

       --output-header=OPTION
              Add output header option.  This option can be given several times.  See the libosmium manual for a
              list of allowed header options.

DIAGNOSTICS

       osmium add-locations-to-ways exits with exit code

       0      if everything went alright,

       1      if there was an error processing the data, or

       2      if there was a problem with the command line arguments.

MEMORY USAGE

       osmium add-locations-to-ways will usually keep all node locations in memory.  For larger data files, this
       can need several tens of GBytes of memory.  See the osmium-index-types(5) man page for details.

EXAMPLES

       Add node locations to an extract keeping all nodes:

              osmium add-locations-to-ways -n -o germany-low.osm.pbf germany.osm.pbf

       Add node locations to a planet file (without untagged nodes):

              osmium add-locations-to-ways -i dense_mmap_array -o planet-low.osm.pbf planet.osm.pbf

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.

       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  This is  free  software:
       you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

CONTACT

       If you have any questions or want to report a bug, please go to http://osmcode.org/contact.html

AUTHORS

       Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.

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