---
name: "nodecachefilereader"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "osm2pgsql"
version: "0.86.0-1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nodecachefilereader"
---

# nodecachefilereader(1)

utility to inspect osm2pgsql's node cache.

## NAME

nodecachefilereader - utility to inspect osm2pgsql's node cache.

## SYNOPSIS

**nodecachefilereader** /path/to/node.cache\
 **nodecachefilereader** /path/to/node.cache node\_id1 node\_id2 node\_id3\
 **nodecachefilereader** /path/to/node.cache node\_id1,node\_id2,node\_id3\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **nodecachefilereader** command.

**nodecachefilereader** allows you to inspect and test osm2pgsql's custom node database.

## OPTIONS

If only the filename of the node cache is given, nodecachefilereader performs some basic diagnostics on the node cache, as well as give some basic benchmark results on how quickly it can lookup nodes by id

If one or more node\_ids are given, nodecachefilereader retrieves the information stored (latitude / longitude) about those nodes in the database

## SEE ALSO

[**osm2pgsql**(1)](/osm2pgsql/1.md),\

## AUTHOR

nodecachefilereader was written by Kai Krueger and other OpenStreetMap project members.