[OSM-dev] Osmosis Command Line Improvements

[Brett Henderson]

Hi All,

I've just released osmosis 0.23 which provides some command line 
abbreviations to reduce the amount of typing required.

The biggest change is that all task names now have alternative 
abbreviated names.  For example, --read-xml can be written as --rx.  The 
short names are documented on the wiki page.

Another change is that some tasks can now accept un-named or "default" 
arguments.  For example, the --read-xml task file argument doesn't need 
the "file=" prefix.  Default arguments are identified on the wiki with 
"(default)" after the argument name.

As an example, a change file can be merged into a snapshot file using 
either of the following equivalent command lines:
osmosis --read-xml file=snapshot1.osm --read-xml-change file=change.osc 
--apply-change --write-xml file=snapshot2.osm
osmosis --rx snapshot1.osm --rxc change.osc --ac --wx snapshot2.osm

It's all documented on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmosis

It's available for download here:
http://www.bretth.com/osmosis/osmosis-latest.zip
http://www.bretth.com/osmosis/osmosis-0.23.zip

Let me know if you run into any problems.  I hope it's useful.

Cheers,
Brett

PS.  I'm also considering shortening the argument names but it's a 
bigger change ...