Scans an OpenStreetMap file for nodes and areas (and relations) whose tags indicate them as POIs (points of interest) and extracts those into a comma separated file.

The parsing of the tags is by default based on a collocation using the OSM Wiki Map Features list. You can however define a custom filter file for parsing the POIs (see "Filter File" below). For areas the positions of their geometrical centre is used. When there is a node above a same tagged area there will be duplicates. The OSMonaut framework is used to parse the OSM files. Java 8 is required to run this program.

Simple Usage

• Download the lastest osmpois.jar file from the releases page
• Get the planet file or any other .osm.pbf file
• Put the OpenStreetMap binary file (.pbf) in same directory as the jar file
• Run Java in a terminal. Make sure you have at least 4GB of free RAM for the whole planet (if you don't enable low memory mode):
  java -Xmx4g -jar osmpois.jar planet.osm.pbf

Output

The program creates a CSV file (by default a pipe-separated-file | as these are rarely used in location names). The first four columns are always the same. The following columns depend on which outputTags have been defined, in order they appear in the parameter list (see "Parameters" below). By default "name" is the only tag that's exported.

Sample

Spaces added for better readability:

40 | W4377786 | 52.5057433 | 13.3223853 | Savignyplatz
145 | W4381164 | 52.5051773 | 13.3211363 | Else-Ury-Bogen
40 | W4392438 | 52.5243813 | 13.2928814 | Schlossgarten
145 | W4395344 | 52.5185754 | 13.3746373 | Platz der Republik

Columns

• 1.) Category name as defined in the filter file (by default see poi_types.csv for the mapping of category-IDs to category-names)
• 2.) OSM-ID of the element, first character indicates the element type (Way, Node or Relation)
• 3.) Latitude
• 4.) Longitude
• 5.) Name of the POI
  or
• 5.) - X.) Custom tags

Parameters

Command line parameters can be used to customize the results. The usage is:
java -jar osmpois.jar <parameters> <PBF-file>

Long	Short	Description	Default
--filterFile <file>	-ff	Custom filter file that is used to define POI categories	filters.txt
--outputFile <file>	-of	The name of the resulting CSV file	Name of input file with .csv extension
--requiredTags <list>	-rt	Comma separated list of tags (keys) that an element must have in order to be considered for export. Use , as argument to make it empty.	name
--outputTags <list>	-ot	Comma separated list of tags that are exported. Use , as argument to make it empty.	name
--printHeader	-ph	Print CSV header with outputTags as first line in the output file.
--relations	-r	Also parse relations. By default only ways and nodes are parsed. Requires more RAM and more time.
--noWays	-nw	Don't parse ways/areas
--noNodes	-nn	Don't parse nodes
--allowUnclosedWays	-u	Allow ways that aren't closed. By default only closed ways (areas) are allowed.
--lowMemory	-lm	Enables Low memory mode that stores caches on disk instead of memory. Takes longer and requires sufficient disk space. See benchmarks
--processors	-p	Number of processors (threads) used to parse the PBF file. See benchmarks	Number of CPU cores (max. 4)
--decimals <number>	-d	Number of decimal places of coordinates	7 (OSM default)
--separator <character>	-s	Character that is used to separate columns in the CSV file. Will be replaced by a space if it occurs in names.	`
--verbose	-v	Display every single found POI instead of a counter
--help	-h	Print the help and exit the program

Filter File

The filter file defines key/value combinations of OSM-tags that select which POIs are exported and which category they belong to. The default filter file was created to fit a specific symbol set. By default the defined category names are just numbers that can be translated to type names via the poi-types file.

Format

It is possible to use a customized filter file by using the --filterFile <file> parameter. The default filter file can be used as a reference.

Each line of the file defines a rule with the format:
<key>=<value> <category_name>

• <value> is optional
• <key>=<value> only matches the exact key/value combination
• <key>= matches all elements that have this tag regardless of the value
• Lines can be commented by using # as the first character in the line

Sub-rules can be defined by indenting a rule by 2 spaces and are only considered if its super-rule matched. Sub-rules can have sub-rules. The first rule with a category that matches the given tags is used for the category, unless it has a sub-rule that also matches. OSM elements that don't match any rule will not be exported.

• <key>= can be followed by the sub-rule =<value>. In this case if only the key matches, the category of the key is used, but if both key and value match, the category of the value is used.
• After a =<value> rule must come a rule that has a key
• <category_name> is optional except at the endpoints (last sub-rules in the chain)

Benchmarks

The following benchmarks have been executed on EC2 instances using internal SSDs for I/O with OsmPoisPbf v1.2, planet file planet-160905.osm.pbf (33 GB) and the default filters file resulting in 12,920,537 POIs:

c3.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 15 GB Ram) with -Xmx13g, varying --processors parameter

processors	time (h)
1	00:37:41
2	00:21:41
3	00:16:42
4	00:16:04
5	00:15:57
6	00:16:05
7	00:16:44
8	00:18:01

c3.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 15 GB Ram) with --processors 4, varying -Xmx parameter

memory	time (h)
4 GB	01:17:21
5 GB	00:48:39
6 GB	00:31:41
8 GB	00:18:24
13 GB	00:16:04

c3.xlarge (4 vCPU, 7.5 GB Ram) with --processors 4 and --lowMemory, varying -Xmx parameter

memory	time (h)
1434 MB	07:11:23
2 GB	06:09:58
4 GB	05:45:08

The files caches created on disk during processing were 12.76 GB in size.

Conclusion

• --processors should be set to 4 - 5 for fastest processing
• The more memory you give with -Xmx the faster. But above 8 GB there are only small improvements.
• If there is less than 4 GB of memory available you should use the --lowMemory mode
• Even in --lowMemory the program needs at least around 1.5 GB RAM

License

Copyright 2012-2015, Merten Peetz

OsmPoisPbf is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

OsmPoisPbf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with OsmPoisPbj. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.