A lot of routing software used in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project supports Protocolbuffer Binary Format (PBF). There are several tools to convert from PBF to OSM XML and vice versa if required.
OSM files are usually sorted in a specific way: first the nodes ordered by ID, then ways ordered by ID, then relations ordered by ID. But this is not necessarily so.
To check if a file is sorted, in Osmium use fileinfo
:
Many commands only work correctly if the file is sorted.
To sort a file using Osmium:
To sort a file using Osmosis:
Tool
Description
Functionality
Example
Lightweight (but fast) application to convert and process OSM files.
Basic
osmconvert OSMulti-modalRoutingNetwork.pbf >OSMulti-modalRoutingNetwork.osm
Command line application for processing OSM data.
Intermediate
osmosis --read-pbf OSMulti-modalRoutingNetwork.pbf --write-xml OSMulti-modalRoutingNetwork.osm
Multipurpose command line tool based on the Osmium Library.
Advanced
osmium OSMulti-modalRoutingNetwork.pbf -o OSMulti-modalRoutingNetwork.osm