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Bijay Regmi
Bijay Regmi

Reputation: 130

Downloading open street map data in pbf format

I want to download data of a specific area from open street map. Whenever I try to export from openstreetmap.org it downloads the data in .osm format but I want the data to be in .pbf format. I have tried converting .osm file to .pbf file using osmconvert.exe but whenever I try to open the converted file in a text editor ( geany to be specific) it shows nothing. But when I tried opening the converted file in vim there was something but not readable. Can someone suggest me a way to download the data of specific area from open street map in readable pbf format?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8792

Answers (1)

Marqqs
Marqqs

Reputation: 321

For downloading area specific OSM files I would like to recommend the service of Geofabrik: http://download.geofabrik.de/

The format .osm usually is human-readable since it's XML-structured text.

The format .pbf is not human-readable because this is a binary format. PBF-formatted OSM data are highly compressed and need to be converted (for example to .osm or to .csv) before you can read them.

Further information can be found in OSM Wiki:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_XML

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PBF_Format

Upvotes: 7

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