[osmosis-dev] Reading file over http

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 06/19/2016 04:16 PM, Stephen Knox wrote:
> This might be a bit of a dumb question, but is it possible already (or
> would it be possible with minor modification) to read a remote osm xml
> file over http and stream it, so that the file does not have to be fully
> downloaded?

wget -O- http://somewhere/file.osm.bz2 | bzcat | osmosis --read-xml -
--do-something-else

Sadly the more efficient .osm.pbf files cannot be consumed in streaming
fashion due to Osmosis attempting to seek in the file.

Bye
Frederik

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