---
name: "osmosis"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "osmosis"
version: "0.49.2-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/osmosis"
---

# osmosis(1)

command line OpenStreetMap data processor

## NAME

osmosis - command line OpenStreetMap data processor

## SYNOPSIS

**osmosis** \[**--command command parameters ...**\] ...

## DESCRIPTION

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

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**osmosis** is a command line Java application for processing OSM data. The tool consists of pluggable components that can be chained to perform a larger operation. For example, it has components for reading/writing databases and files, deriving/applying changes to data sources, and sorting data, (etc.). It has been written to easily add new features without re-writing common tasks such as file and database handling.

Some examples of the things it can currently do are:

• Generate planet dumps from a database

• Load planet dumps into a database

• Produce change sets using database history tables

• Apply change sets to a local database

• Compare two planet dump files and produce a change set

• Re-sort the data contained in planet dump files

• Extract data inside a bounding box or polygon

## OPTIONS

The commands and arguments accepted by **osmosis** are described in details and shown in examples in the page **https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis** and its subpages.

## BUGS

The upstreams BTS can be found at **https://trac.openstreetmap.org/query?component=osmosis**. Bugs are also discussed on upstream mailing list, at **https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmosis-dev**.

## AUTHOR

**Giovanni Mascellani** \<mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Giovanni Mascellani\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.