I’m sure this has been asked thousands of times, but how do I view the map extracts offline? (.osm and .pbf) Is there a (native) app I can use? Can’t find any clear information.

  • redd@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I asked ChatGPT and there seems to be two options to view OSM extracts:

    1. QGIS can open .osm and .pbf

    2. JOSM can open .osm

    I did not verify or test this by myself. Maybe some people have more experience?

  • Marcos Dione@en.osm.town
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    10 days ago

    @Irelephant at least .osm files can be loaded in #JOSM, but if your extract is big enough (say, a city or bigger), it might clog it, since it will try to render _everything_. It’s mostly aimed at loading changesets, not whole areas.

    After that, it seems like you can convert the pbf into a SQLite/Spatialite DB and load it in #QGis, but you’re already transforming the data.

    EDIT: yay! Federation works! (Answered from Mastodon :)

    • pietervdvn@lemmy.mlMEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Yeah, the fediverse is amazing. I’ve had cases where I answered a lemmy thread without even realizing it was on lemmy ;)

  • pietervdvn@lemmy.mlMEnglish
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    9 days ago

    What are you trying to do with it?

    .pbf is a compression format (a bit like a .zip-file) which contains the .osm-file. The .osm-file is nothing more then an XML-file with a specific format and a .osm-extension.

    Those are not meant for day-to-day users but more for developers.There are some programs able to open those files, such as JOSM or Osmosis.