[OSM-talk] osmosis

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> I'm really new to all openstreetmap and I am trying to get osmosis to work
> on a Ubuntu Linux machine.
>
> I have downloaded osmosis and java1.6 but can not get any thing to work.
>
> Can any body give me a really simple description of what I need to do to
> get Osmosis to run a simple exercise.

I used

java -mx1024m -jar osmosis.jar --read-xml  
file=europe.osm.bz2 --bounding-polygon file=MyArea.txt" --write-xml 
file="MyArea.osm"

successfully on a Gutsy box.

Best regards,

ce