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How can I view OSM extracts? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] mdione@en.osm.town 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

@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.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 5 days ago

@pietervdvn @mdione If you're replying to a reply it sometimes helps to add @openstreetmap to the toot to make sure it gets propagated properly by lemmy.

(although probably not this time as I'm replying to a lemmy.ml account)