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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