1OSMIUM-SORT(1) OSMIUM-SORT(1)
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6 osmium-sort - sort OSM files
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9 osmium sort [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE...
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12 Merges the content of all input files given on the command line and
13 sort the result.
14 Objects are sorted by type, ID, and version. IDs are sorted negative
16 IDs first, the positive IDs, both ordered by their absolute values. So
17 the sort order for types and IDs is:
18 node -1, node -2, ..., node 1, node 2, ..., way -1, way -2, ..., way 1,
20 way 2, ..., relation -1, relation -2, ..., relation 1, relation 2, ...
21 If there are several objects of the same type and with the same ID they
23 are ordered by ascending version.
24 This command works with normal OSM data files, history files, and
26 change files.
27 This commands reads its input file(s) only once and writes its output
29 file in one go so it can be streamed, ie. it can read from STDIN and
30 write to STDOUT. (Unless the multipass strategy is used.)
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33 -s, --strategy=STRATEGY
34 Sorting strategy. The “simple” strategy reads all input files
35 into memory, does the sorting and writes everything out. The
36 “multipass” strategy reads the input files in three passes, one
37 for nodes, one for ways, and one for relations. After reading
38 all objects of each type, they are sorted and written out. This
39 is a bit slower than the “simple” strategy, but uses less mem‐
40 ory. The “multi” strategy doesn’t work when reading from STDIN.
41 Default: “simple”.
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44 -h, --help
45 Show usage help.
46 -v, --verbose
48 Set verbose mode. The program will output information about
49 what it is doing to STDERR.
50 --progress
52 Show progress bar. Usually a progress bar is only displayed if
53 STDOUT and STDERR are detected to be TTY. With this option a
54 progress bar is always shown. Note that a progress bar will
55 never be shown when reading from STDIN or a pipe.
56 --no-progress
58 Do not show progress bar. Usually a progress bar is displayed
59 if STDOUT and STDERR are detected to be a TTY. With this option
60 the progress bar is suppressed. Note that a progress bar will
61 never be shown when reading from STDIN or a pipe.
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64 -F, --input-format=FORMAT
65 The format of the input file(s). Can be used to set the input
66 format if it can’t be autodetected from the file name(s). This
67 will set the format for all input files, there is no way to set
68 the format for some input files only. See osmium-file-for‐
69 mats(5) or the libosmium manual for details.
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72 -f, --output-format=FORMAT
73 The format of the output file. Can be used to set the output
74 file format if it can’t be autodetected from the output file
75 name. See osmium-file-formats(5) or the libosmium manual for
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77 --fsync
79 Call fsync after writing the output file to force flushing buf‐
80 fers to disk.
81 --generator=NAME
83 The name and version of the program generating the output file.
84 It will be added to the header of the output file. Default is
85 “osmium/” and the version of osmium.
86 -o, --output=FILE
88 Name of the output file. Default is `-' (STDOUT).
89 -O, --overwrite
91 Allow an existing output file to be overwritten. Normally
92 osmium will refuse to write over an existing file.
93 --output-header=OPTION=VALUE
95 Add output header option. This command line option can be used
96 multiple times for different OPTIONs. See the libosmium manual
97 for a list of available header options. For some commands you
98 can use the special format “OPTION!” (ie. an exclamation mark
99 after the OPTION and no value set) to set the value to the same
100 as in the input file.
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103 osmium sort exits with exit code
104 0 if everything went alright,
106 1 if there was an error processing the data, or
108 2 if there was a problem with the command line arguments.
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112 osmium sort keeps the contents of all the input files in main memory.
113 This will take roughly 10 times as much memory as the files take on
114 disk in .osm.bz2 or osm.pbf format.
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117 Sort in.osm.bz2 and write out to sorted.osm.pbf:
118 osmium sort -o sorted.osm.pbf in.osm.bz2
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122 · osmium(1), osmium-file-formats(5)
123 · Osmium website (https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/)
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127 Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.
128 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
130 <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are
131 free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
132 extent permitted by law.
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135 If you have any questions or want to report a bug, please go to
136 https://osmcode.org/contact.html
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139 Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.
140 1.12.1 OSMIUM-SORT(1)