---
name: "sosi2osm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sosi2osm"
version: "1.0.0-7"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sosi2osm"
---

# sosi2osm(1)

SOSI to OSM converter

## NAME

sosi2osm - SOSI to OSM converter

## SYNOPSIS

**sosi2osm** \[ sosi file \] \[ lua file \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **sosi2osm** program.

This utility is capable of converting SOSI files (usually with the .sos extension) to .osm files. A SOSI file is a geospatial vector data format used for exchange of geograhical information in Norway. Osm-files are used by the OpenStreetMap community.

In order to do a conversion you specify the name of the SOSI-file and one .lua file. Then the .osm file will be written to **stdout.** The lua file is used to tell which tags are converted into which tags. A number of .lua files are bundled together with the package:

/usr/share/sosi2osm/lua/default.lua\
 /usr/share/sosi2osm/lua/adresser.lua\
 /usr/share/sosi2osm/lua/arealdekke.lua\
 /usr/share/sosi2osm/lua/adm.lua

**If no conversion of tags is necessary, one may simply run it like this:**

sosi2osm input.sos default.lua \> output.osm

**For converting address nodes, use:**

sosi2osm input.sos adresser.lua \> output.osm

Please open the lua-files and see what they do.

## OPTIONS

There are no command line options.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ruben Undheim \<ruben.undheim@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).