Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org/.
There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community/
https://mapcomplete.org/ is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)
https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.
@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 :)
Yeah, the fediverse is amazing. I've had cases where I answered a lemmy thread without even realizing it was on lemmy ;)
@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)
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.
To view it offline. There is probably a far better way I am missing.
Did you see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_offline already?
They all seem to be phone apps. I tried using kde marble, but it doesn't work very well (for me)
I asked ChatGPT and there seems to be two options to view OSM extracts:
QGIS can open .osm and .pbf
JOSM can open .osm
I did not verify or test this by myself. Maybe some people have more experience?
@redd @Irelephant And I guess the iD editor in osm.org can also open .OSM files but never tried.
An end user cannot open provided XML files with it
