[osmosis-dev] Cutting PBF file into 1° tiles

[Jochen Topf]

On Mo, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:10:06 +0200, Sylvain Melin wrote:
> My plan is to :
> - exploit a planet sized pbf file
> - cut it into 1° tiles using osmosis
> - filter and extract the data from these tiles as shapefiles using libosmium

If you are writing your own program anyway to create those shapefiles, why
don't you do the splitting in this step *after* creating the geometries and
before writing them into shapefiles? That is probably much easier to do than
based on the PBF due to the structure of the OSM data files.

Jochen
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