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6 osmium-apply-changes - apply OSM change file(s) to OSM data file
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9 osmium apply-changes [OPTIONS] OSM-DATA-FILE OSM-CHANGE-FILE...
10 osmium apply-changes [OPTIONS] OSM-HISTORY-FILE OSM-CHANGE-FILE...
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13 Merges the content of all OSM change files and applies those changes to
14 the OSM data or history file.
15 Objects in the data or history file must be sorted by type, ID, and
17 version.
18 Objects in change files need not be sorted, so it doesn’t matter in
20 what order the change files are given or in what order they contain the
21 data. (If you are using change files of extracts this is not necessar‐
22 ily true and you must specify the change files on the command line in
23 the correct order from oldest to newest. This is because change files
24 from extracts can contain multiple different object versions with the
25 same version and timestamp!)
26 Changes can be applied to normal OSM data files or OSM history files
28 with this command. File formats will be autodetected from the file
29 name suffixes, see the --with-history/-H option if that doesn’t work.
30 This commands reads its input file(s) only once and writes its output
32 file in one go so it can be streamed, ie. it can read from STDIN and
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36 -H, --with-history
37 Update an OSM history file (instead of a normal OSM data file).
38 Both input and output must be history files. This option is
39 usually not necessary, because history files will be detected
40 from their file name suffixes, but if this detection doesn’t
41 work, you can force this mode with this option. Can not be used
42 together with the --locations-on-ways option.
43 --locations-on-ways
45 Input has and output should have node locations on ways. Can be
46 used to update files created by the osmium-add-locations-to-
47 ways. See there for details on the format. Can not be used to‐
48 gether with the --with-history/-H option.
49 --redact
51 Redact (patch) history files. Change files can contain any ver‐
52 sion of any object which will replace that version of that ob‐
53 ject from the input. This allows changing the history! This
54 mode is for special use only, for instance to remove copyrighted
55 or private data.
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58 -h, --help
59 Show usage help.
60 -v, --verbose
62 Set verbose mode. The program will output information about
63 what it is doing to STDERR.
64 --progress
66 Show progress bar. Usually a progress bar is only displayed if
67 STDOUT and STDERR are detected to be TTY. With this option a
68 progress bar is always shown. Note that a progress bar will
69 never be shown when reading from STDIN or a pipe.
70 --no-progress
72 Do not show progress bar. Usually a progress bar is displayed
73 if STDOUT and STDERR are detected to be a TTY. With this option
74 the progress bar is suppressed. Note that a progress bar will
75 never be shown when reading from STDIN or a pipe.
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78 -F, --input-format=FORMAT
79 The format of the OSM-DATA-FILE or OSM-HISTORY-FILE. Can be
80 used to set the input format if it can’t be autodetected from
81 the file name. See osmium-file-formats(5) or the libosmium man‐
82 ual for details.
83 --change-file-format=FORMAT
85 The format of the OSM-CHANGE-FILE(s). Can be used to set the
86 input format if it can’t be autodetected from the file name(s).
87 This will set the format for all change files, there is no way
88 to set the format for some change files only. See osmium-file-
89 formats(5) or the libosmium manual for details.
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92 -f, --output-format=FORMAT
93 The format of the output file. Can be used to set the output
94 file format if it can’t be autodetected from the output file
95 name. See osmium-file-formats(5) or the libosmium manual for
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97 --fsync
99 Call fsync after writing the output file to force flushing buf‐
100 fers to disk.
101 --generator=NAME
103 The name and version of the program generating the output file.
104 It will be added to the header of the output file. Default is
105 “osmium/” and the version of osmium.
106 -o, --output=FILE
108 Name of the output file. Default is `-' (STDOUT).
109 -O, --overwrite
111 Allow an existing output file to be overwritten. Normally os‐
112 mium will refuse to write over an existing file.
113 --output-header=OPTION=VALUE
115 Add output header option. This command line option can be used
116 multiple times for different OPTIONs. See the osmium-output-
117 headers(5) man page for a list of available header options. For
118 some commands you can use the special format “OPTION!” (ie. an
119 exclamation mark after the OPTION and no value set) to set the
120 value to the same as in the input file.
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123 osmium apply-changes exits with exit code
124 0 if everything went alright,
126 1 if there was an error processing the data, or
128 2 if there was a problem with the command line arguments.
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132 osmium apply-changes keeps the contents of all the change files in main
133 memory. This will take roughly 10 times as much memory as the files
134 take on disk in .osm.bz2 format.
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137 Apply changes in 362.osc.gz to planet file and write result to
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139 osmium apply-changes --output=new.osm.pbf planet.osm.pbf 362.osc.gz
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143 • osmium(1), osmium-merge-changes(1), osmium-derive-changes(1), osmium-
144 file-formats(5), osmium-output-headers(5)
145 • Osmium website (https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/)
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149 Copyright (C) 2013-2023 Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.
150 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/li‐
152 censes/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and
153 redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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156 If you have any questions or want to report a bug, please go to
157 https://osmcode.org/contact.html
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160 Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.
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