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NAME
osmium-export - export OSM data
SYNOPSIS
osmium export [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE
DESCRIPTION
The OSM data model with its nodes, ways, and relations is very different from the data model usually used
for geodata with features having point, linestring, or polygon geometries (or their cousins, the
multipoint, multilinestring, or multipolygon geometries).
The export command transforms OSM data into a more usual GIS data model. Nodes will be translated into
points and ways into linestrings or polygons (if they are closed ways). Multipolygon and boundary
relations will be translated into multipolygons. This transformation is not loss-less, especially
information in non-multipolygon, non-boundary relations is lost.
All tags are preserved in this process. Note that most GIS formats (such as Shapefiles, etc.) do not
support arbitrary tags. Transformation into other GIS formats will need extra steps mapping tags to a
limited list of attributes. This is outside the scope of this command.
The osmium export 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.
This program will not work on full history files.
OPTIONS
-c, --config=FILE
Read configuration from specified file.
-e, --show-errors
Output any geometry errors on STDERR. This includes ways with a single node or areas that can't
be assembled from multipolygon relations. This output is not suitable for automated use, there
are other tools that can create very detailed errors reports that are better for that (see
http://osmcode.org/osm-area-tools/).
-E, --stop-on-error
Usually geometry errors (due to missing node locations or broken polygons) are ignored and the
features are omitted from the output. If this option is set, any error will immediately stop the
program.
-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
If this is set features without any tags will be in the exported data. By default these features
will be omitted from the output. Tags are the OSM tags, not attributes (like id, version, uid,
...) without the tags removed by the exclude_tags or include_tags settings.
-r, --omit-rs
Do not print the RS (0x1e, record separator) character when using the GeoJSON Text Sequence
Format. Ignored for other formats.
-u, --add-unique-id=TYPE
Add a unique ID to each feature. TYPE can be either counter in which case the first feature will
get ID 1, the next ID 2 and so on. The type of object does not matter in this case. Or the TYPE
is type_id in which case the ID is a string, the first character is the type of object ('n' for
nodes, 'w' for linestrings created from ways, and 'a' for areas created from ways and/or
relations, after that there is a unique ID based on the original OSM object ID(s).
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 the OUTPUT FORMATS section for a list of formats.
--fsync
Call fsync after writing the output file to force flushing buffers to disk.
-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.
CONFIG FILE
The config file is in JSON format. The top-level is an object which contains the following optional
names:
• attributes: An object specifying which attributes of OSM objects to export. See the ATTRIBUTES
section.
• linear_tags: An array of expressions specifying tags that should be treated as linear. See the FILTER
EXPRESSION and AREA HANDLING sections.
• area_tags: An array of expressions specifying tags that should be treated as area tags. See the FILTER
EXPRESSION and AREA HANDLING sections.
• exclude_tags: A list of tag expressions. Tags matching these expressions are excluded from the output.
See the FILTER EXPRESSION section.
• include_tags: A list of tag expressions. Tags matching these expressions are included in the output.
See the FILTER EXPRESSION section.
The exclude_tags and include_tags options are mutually exclusive. If you want to just exclude some tags
but leave most tags untouched, use the exclude_tags setting. If you only want a defined list of tags,
use include_tags.
When no config file is specified, the following settings are used:
{
"attributes": {
"type": false,
"id": false,
"version": false,
"changeset": false,
"timestamp": false,
"uid": false,
"user": false,
"way_nodes": false
},
"linear_tags": [],
"area_tags": [],
"exclude_tags": [],
"include_tags": []
}
FILTER EXPRESSIONS
A filter expression specifies a tag or tags that should be matched in the data.
Some examples:
amenity
Matches all objects with the key "amenity".
highway=primary
Matches all objects with the key "highway" and value "primary".
highway!=primary
Matches all objects with the key "highway" and a value other than "primary".
type=multipolygon,boundary
Matches all objects with key "type" and value "multipolygon" or "boundary".
name,name:de=Kastanienallee,Kastanienstrasse
Matches any object with a "name" or "name:de" tag with the value "Kastanienallee" or
"Kastanienstrasse".
addr:* Matches all objects with any key starting with "addr:"
name=*Paris*
Matches all objects with a name that contains the word "Paris".
If there is no equal sign ("=") in the expression only keys are matched and values can by anything. If
there is an equal sign ("=") in the expression, the key is to the left and the value to the right. An
exclamation sign ("!") before the equal sign means: A tag with that key, but not the value(s) to the
right of the equal sign. A leading or trailing asterisk ("*") can be used for substring or prefix
matching, respectively. Commas (",") can be used to separate several keys or values.
All filter expressions are case-sensitive. There is no way to escape the special characters such as "=",
"*" and ",". You can not mix comma-expressions and "*"-expressions.
ATTRIBUTES
All OSM objects (nodes, ways, and relations) have attributes, areas inherit their attributes from the
ways and/or relations they were created from. The attributes known to osmium export are:
• type ('node', 'way', or 'relation')
• id (64 bit object ID)
• version (version number)
• changeset (changeset ID)
• timestamp (time of object creation in seconds since Jan 1 1970)
• uid (user ID)
• user (user name)
• way_nodes (ways only, array with node IDs)
For areas, the type will be way or relation if the area was created from a closed way or a multipolygon
or boundary relation, respectively. The id for areas is the id of the closed way or the multipolygon or
boundary relation.
By default the attributes will not be in the export, because they are not necessary for most uses of OSM
data. If you are interested in some (or all) attributes, add an attributes object to the config file.
Add a member for each attribute you are interested in, the value can be either false (do not output this
attribute), true (output this attribute with the attribute name prefixed by the @ sign) or any string, in
which case the string will be used as the attribute name.
Note that the id is not necessarily unique. Even the combination type and id is not unique, because a
way may end up as LineString and as Polygon on the file. See the --add-unique-id option for a unique ID.
AREA HANDLING
Multipolygon relations will be assembled into multipolygon geometries forming areas. Some closed ways
will also form areas. Here are the more detailed rules:
• Non-closed ways (last node not the same as the first node) are always linestrings, not areas.
• Relations tagged type=multipolygon or type=boundary are always assembled into areas. If they are not
valid, they are omitted from the output (unless --stop-on-error/-E is specified). (An error message
will be produced if the --show-errors/-e option is specified).
• For closed ways the tags are checked. If they have an area tag other than area=no, they are areas and
a polygon is created. If they have an area tag other than area=yes, they are linestrings. So closed
ways can be both, an area and a linestring!
• The configuration options area_tags and linear_tags can be used to augment the area check. If any of
the tags on a closed way matches any of the expressions in area_tags, a polygon is created. If any of
the tags on a closed way matches any of the expressions in linear_tags, a linestring is created.
Again: If both match, an area and a linestring is created.
OUTPUT FORMATS
The following output formats are supported:
• geojson (alias: json): GeoJSON (RFC7946). The output file will contain a single FeatureCollection
object. This is the default format.
• geojsonseq (alias: jsonseq): GeoJSON Text Sequence (RFC8142). Each line (beginning with a RS (0x1e,
record separator) and ending in a linefeed character) contains one GeoJSON object. Used for streaming
GeoJSON.
• text (alias: txt): A simple text format with the geometry in WKT format followed by the comma-delimited
tags. This is mainly intended for debugging at the moment. THE FORMAT MIGHT CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE!
DIAGNOSTICS
osmium export 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 export will usually keep all node locations and all objects needed for assembling the areas 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
Export into GeoJSON format:
osmium export data.osm.pbf -o data.geojson
Use a config file and export into GeoJSON Text Sequence format:
osmium export data.osm.pbf -o data.geojsonseq -c export-config.json
SEE ALSO
• osmium(1), osmium-file-formats(5), osmium-index-types(5), osmium-add-node-locations-to-ways(1) • Osmium website (http://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/) • GeoJSON (http://geojson.org/) • RFC7946 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946) • RFC8142 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8142) • Line delimited JSON (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Streaming#Line_delimited_JSON)
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-EXPORT(1)