Osmium Filter

Work-in-progress experimental fast and flexible filter for OSM data.

Do not use this for production work. The expression language (see below) will change!

Dependencies

• libosmium

Building

Then in the osmium-filter directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

The osmium-filter binary is created in the src directory.

Run

Usage:

osmium-filter INPUT-FILE -o OUTPUT-FILE -e FILTER-EXPRESSION

or

osmium-filter INPUT-FILE -o OUTPUT-FILE -E FILTER-EXPRESSION-FILE

Will filter out only the OSM objects matching the expressions. Call with -w to add all nodes referenced by any matching ways. (This will read the input twice.)

Call with --help to get usage info.

Expression Language

No real documentation yet, but this will give you some ideas:

A or B
A and B
not A

highway     Tag key exists

"highway"   Tag key exists

highway = residential

@id=        Compare object ID
@id!=
@id<
@id>
@id<=
@id>=

@version    Same for version
...

@uid        User ID

@changeset  Changeset ID

@nodes      Number of nodes

@members    Number of members

@tags       Number of tags

123         ID (same as @id=)

@type=node
node

@type=way
way

@type=relation
relation