[OSM-dev] Libosmium method of converting OSM to GeoJSON

[Jochen Topf]

Hi!

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:39:41AM -0400, Craig Kochis via dev wrote:
> I've been using osmium-tool for extracting features from osm exporting to
> GeoJSON, and was just wondering what method it's using for the osm ->
> geojson conversion. Does it rely on another library (GDAL / OGR), or is it
> using some other method.
> 
> I see that Libosmium has some references to gdal, so that's my hunch, but
> wanted to confirm if that's not the case.

osmium-tool doesn't use gdal for that, it does the work itself. For the
low-level JSON encoding RapidJSON is used.

Jochen
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