[OSM-dev] New OGR driver to read OpenStreetMap .osm / .pbf files

[Jochen Topf]

Interesting. Any reason you wrote the whole thing yourself instead of basing
it on the Osmium library? (wiki.osm.org/wiki/Osmium)

Jochen

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:18:10PM +0200, Even Rouault wrote:
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:18:10 +0200
> From: Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org>
> To: dev at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-dev] New OGR driver to read OpenStreetMap .osm / .pbf files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a forward of an email I just send on the gdal dev mailing list :
> 
> Following the recent brainstorming with Jukka, I've pushed into trunk a driver 
> to read OpenStreetMap .osm / .pbf files .
> 
> No particularly exotic dependencies : SQLite (and Expat for OSM XML files)
> 
> See http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_osm.html for the details (will be available in 
> a few hours).
> 
> The performance to convert 
> http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/finland.osm.pbf into a Spatialite DB is 
> the following one on my PC (Core i5 @ 2.67 GHz with 64bit GDAL) :
> 
> $ time ogr2ogr finland.sqlite finland.osm.pbf -f SQLite -dsco SPATIALITE=YES -gt 
> 10000 -progress --config OGR_SQLITE_SYNCHRONOUS OFF
> 
> real    4m31.194s
> user    3m33.020s
> sys 0m46.070s
> 
> Testing with larger areas, like whole France or Europe, shows sluggish 
> performance when ways are built from nodes, but that's perhaps expected. I 
> didn't compare with other tools to know if the indexing or request strategy is 
> particularly bad.
> 
> The data/osmconf.ini configuration file is pretty basic and its settings could 
> likely be improved with some tweaking. Contributions welcome.
> 
> An improved version of the driver could allow specifying custom layers, 
> instead of the 4 fixed ones.
> 
> Happy testing,
> 
> Even
> 
> PS: I'm not sure if this is the right list @openstreetmap.org for that kind of 
> news.
> 
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