Ubuntu Manpage: osmium-extract - create geographical extracts from an OSM file

NAME

       osmium-extract - create geographical extracts from an OSM file

SYNOPSIS

       osmium extract --config CONFIG-FILE [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE
       osmium extract --bbox LEFT,BOTTOM,RIGHT,TOP [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE
       osmium extract --polygon POLYGON-FILE [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE

DESCRIPTION

Create geographical extracts from an OSM data file or an OSM history file. The region
(geographical extent) can be given as a bounding box or as a (multi)polygon.

There are three ways of calling this command:

• Specify a config file with the --config/-c option. It can define any number of regions
you want to cut out. See the CONFIG FILE section for details.

• Specify a bounding box to cut out with the --bbox/-b option.

• Specify a (multi)polygon to cut out with the --polygon/-p option.

The input file is assumed to be ordered in the usual order: nodes first, then ways, then
relations.

If the --with-history option is used, the command will work correctly for history files.
This currently works for the complete_ways strategy only. The simple or smart strategies
do not work with history files. A history extract will contain every version of all
objects with at least one version in the region. Generating a history extract is somewhat
slower than a normal data extract.

Osmium will make sure that all nodes on the vertices of the boundary of the region will be
in the extract, but nodes that happen to be directly on the boundary, but between those
vertices, might end up in the extract or not. In almost all cases this will be good
enough, but if you want to make really sure you got everything, use a small buffer around
your region.

By default no bounds will be set in the header of the output file. Use the --set-bounds
option if you need this.

Note that osmium extract will never clip any OSM objects, ie. it will not remove node
references outside the region from ways or unused relation members from relations. This
means you might get objects that are not reference-complete. It has the advantage that
you can use osmium merge to merge several extracts without problems.

OPTIONS

-b, --bbox=LEFT,BOTTOM,RIGHT,TOP
Set the bounding box to cut out. Can not be used with --polygon/-p, --config/-c,
or --directory/-d.

-c, --config=FILE
Set the name of the config file. Can not be used with the --bbox/-b or
--polygon/-p option. If this is set, the --output/-o and --output-format/-f
options are ignored, because they are set in the config file.

-d, --directory=DIRECTORY
Output directory. Output file names in the config file are relative to this
directory. Overwrites the setting of the same name in the config file. This
option is ignored when the --bbox/-b or --polygon/-p options are used, set the
output directory and name with the --output/-o option in that case.

-H, --with-history
Specify that the input file is a history file. The output file(s) will also be
history file(s).

-p, --polygon=POLYGON_FILE
Set the polygon to cut out based on the contents of the file. The file has to be a
GeoJSON, poly, or OSM file as described in the (MULTI)POLYGON FILE FORMATS section.
It has to have the right suffix to be detected correctly. Can not be used with
--bbox/-b, --config/-c, or --directory/-d.

-s, --strategy=STRATEGY
Use the given strategy to extract the region. For possible values and details see
the STRATEGIES section. Default is "complete_ways".

-S, --option=OPTION=VALUE
Set a named option for the strategy. If needed you can specify this option
multiple times to set several options.

--set-bounds
Set the bounds field in the header. The bounds are set to the bbox or envelope of
the polygon specified for the extract. Note that strategies other than "simple"
can put nodes outside those bounds into the output file.

COMMON OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show usage help.

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

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.

CONFIG FILE

The config file mainly specifies the file names and the regions of the extracts that
should be created.

The config file is in JSON format. The top-level is an object which contains at least an
"extracts" array. It can also contain a "directory" entry which names the directory where
all the output files will be created:

{
"extracts": [...],
"directory": "/tmp/"
}

The extracts array specifies the extracts that should be created. Each item in the array
is an object with at least a name "output" naming the output file and a region defined in
a "bbox", "polygon" or "multipolygon" name. An optional "description" can be added, it
will not be used by the program but can help with documenting the file contents. You can
add an optional "output_format" if the format can not be detected from the "output" file
name. Run "osmium help file-formats" to get a description of allowed formats. The
optional "output_header" allows you to set additional OSM file header settings such as the
"generator".

"extracts": [
{
"output": "hamburg.osm.pbf",
"output_format": "pbf",
"description": "optional description",
"box": ...
},
{
"output": "berlin.osm.pbf",
"description": "optional description",
"polygon": ...
},
{
"output": "munich.osm.pbf",
"output_header": {
"generator": "MyExtractor/1.0"
},
"description": "optional description",
"multipolygon": ...
}
]

There are several formats for specifying the regions:

box:

A bounding box in one of two formats. The first is a simple array with four real numbers
specifying the left, bottom, right, and top boundary (in that order):

{
"output": "munich.osm.pbf",
"description": "Bounding box specified in array format",
"bbox": [11.35, 48.05, 11.73, 48.25]
}

The second format uses an object instead of an array:

{
"output": "dresden.osm.pbf",
"description": "Bounding box specified in object format",
"bbox": {
"left": 13.57,
"right": 13.97,
"top": 51.18,
"bottom": 50.97
}
}

polygon:

A polygon, either specified inline in the config file or read from an external file. See
the (MULTI)POLYGON FILE FORMATS section for external files. If specified inline this is a
nested array, the outer array defining the polygon, the next array the rings and the
innermost arrays the coordinates. This format is the same as in GeoJSON files.

In this example there is only one outer ring:

"polygon": [[
[9.613465, 53.58071],
[9.647599, 53.59655],
[9.649288, 53.61059],
[9.613465, 53.58071]
]]

In each ring, the last set of coordinates should be the same as the first set, closing the
ring.

multipolygon:

A multipolygon, either specified inline in the config file or read from an external file.
See the (MULTI)POLYGON FILE FORMATS section for external files. If specified inline this
is a nested array, the outer array defining the multipolygon, the next array the polygons,
the next the rings and the innermost arrays the coordinates. This format is the same as
in GeoJSON files.

In this example there is one outer and one inner ring:

"multipolygon": [[[
[6.847, 50.987],
[6.910, 51.007],
[7.037, 50.953],
[6.967, 50.880],
[6.842, 50.925],
[6.847, 50.987]
],[
[6.967, 50.954],
[6.969, 50.920],
[6.932, 50.928],
[6.934, 50.950],
[6.967, 50.954]
]]]

In each ring, the last set of coordinates should be the same as the first set, closing the
ring.

Osmium must check each and every node in the input data and find out in which bounding
boxes or (multi)polygons this node is. This is very cheap for bounding boxes, but more
expensive for (multi)polygons. And it becomes more expensive the more vertices the
(multi)polyon has. Use bounding boxes or simplified polygons where possible.

Note that bounding boxes or (multi)polygons are not allowed to span the -180/180 degree
line. If you need this, cut out the regions on each side and use osmium merge to join the
resulting files.

(MULTI)POLYGON FILE FORMATS

External files describing a (multi)polygon are specified in the config file using the
"file_name" and "file_type" properties on the "polygon" or "multipolygon" object:

"polygon": {
"file_name": "berlin.geojson",
"file_type": "geojson"
}

If file names don't start with a slash (/), they are interpreted relative to the directory
where the config file is. If the "file_type" is missing, Osmium will try to autodetect it
from the suffix of the "file_name".

The following file types are supported:

geojson
GeoJSON file containing exactly one polygon or multipolygon. Everything except the
actual geometry is ignored.

poly A poly file as described in
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Polygon_Filter_File_Format . This wiki
page also mentions several sources for such poly files.

osm An OSM file containing one or more multipolygon or boundary relation together with
all the nodes and ways needed. Any OSM file format (XML, PBF, ...) supported by
Osmium can be used here, but the correct suffix must be used, so the file format is
detected correctly. Files for this can easily be obtained by searching for the
area on OSM and then downloading the full relation using a URL like
http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/RELATION-ID/full . Or you can use
osmium getid -r to get a specific relation from an OSM file. Note that both these
approaches can get you very detailed boundaries which can take quite a while to cut
out. Consider simplifying the boundary before use.

If there are several (multi)polygons in a poly file or OSM file, they will be merged. The
(multi)polygons must not overlap, otherwise the result is undefined.

STRATEGIES

osmium extract can use different strategies for creating the extracts. Depending on the
strategy different objects will end up in the extracts. The strategies differ in how much
memory they need and how often they need to read the input file. The choice of strategy
depends on how you want to use the generated extracts and how much memory and time you
have.

The default strategy is complete_ways.

Strategy simple
Runs in a single pass. The extract will contain all nodes inside the region and
all ways referencing those nodes as well as all relations referencing any nodes or
ways already included. Ways crossing the region boundary will not be
reference-complete. Relations will not be reference-complete. This strategy is
fast, because it reads the input only once, but the result is not enough for most
use cases. It is the only strategy that will work when reading from a socket or
pipe. This strategy will not work for history files.

Strategy complete_ways
Runs in two passes. The extract will contain all nodes inside the region and all
ways referencing those nodes as well as all nodes referenced by those ways. The
extract will also contain all relations referenced by nodes inside the region or
ways already included and, recursively, their parent relations. The ways are
reference-complete, but the relations are not.

Strategy smart
Runs in three passes. The extract will contain all nodes inside the region and all
ways referencing those nodes as well as all nodes referenced by those ways. The
extract will also contain all relations referenced by nodes inside the region or
ways already included and, recursively, their parent relations. The extract will
also contain all nodes and ways (and the nodes they reference) referenced by
relations tagged "type=multipolygon" directly referencing any nodes in the region
or ways referencing nodes in the region. The ways are reference-complete, and all
multipolygon relations referencing nodes in the regions or ways that have nodes in
the region are reference-complete. Other relations are not reference-complete.

For the smart strategy you can change the types of relations that should be
reference-complete. Instead of just relations tagged "type=multipolygon", you can either
get all relations (use "-S types=any") or give a list of types to the -S option: "-S
types=multipolygon,route". Note that especially boundary relations can be huge, so if you
include them, be aware your result might be huge.

DIAGNOSTICS

       osmium extract 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, config file or polygon
              files.

MEMORY USAGE

       Memory usage of osmium extract depends on the number of extracts and on the strategy used.
       For  the simple strategy it will at least be the number of extracts times the highest node
       ID used divided by 8.  For the complete_ways twice that and for the smart strategy  a  bit
       more.

EXAMPLES

       See the example config files in the extract-example-config directory.  To try it:

              osmium extract -v -c extract-example-config/extracts.json \
                  germany-latest.osm.pbf

       Extract the city of Karlsruhe using a boundary polygon:

              osmium -p karlsruhe-boundary.osm.bz2 germany-latest.osm.pbf \
                  -o karlsruhe.osm.pbf

       Extract the city of Munich using a bounding box:

              osmium -b 11.35,48.05,11.73,48.25 germany-latest.osm.pbf \
                  -o munich.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>.

                                              1.7.1                             OSMIUM-EXTRACT(1)