osmium-create-locations-index - create or update locations index from OSM file

       Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.

                                                     1.17.0                     OSMIUM-CREATE-LOCATIONS-INDEX(1)

       -h, --help
              Show usage help.

       -v, --verbose
              Set verbose mode.  The program will output information about what it is doing to STDERR.

       --progress
              Show  progress bar.  Usually a progress bar is only displayed if STDOUT and STDERR are detected to
              be TTY.  With this option a progress bar is always shown.  Note that a progress bar will never  be
              shown when reading from STDIN or a pipe.

       --no-progress
              Do  not  show progress bar.  Usually a progress bar is displayed if STDOUT and STDERR are detected
              to be a TTY.  With this option the progress bar is suppressed.  Note  that  a  progress  bar  will
              never be shown when reading from STDIN or a pipe.

       If you have any questions or want to report a bug, please go to https://osmcode.org/contact.html

       Copyright (C) 2013-2025 Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.

       License  GPLv3+:  GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  This is free software:
       you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

       Create an index of all node locations from the OSM-FILE in the file INDEX-FILE.

       If the INDEX-FILE exists, it will not be touched unless the --update/-u option is used.

       Regardless  of  the size of the input file, this index will need about 8 * highest-node-id bytes on disk.
       For a current planet file this is more than 50 GBytes.

       The  index  file  format  is  compatible  to  the  one  created  by   “osmium   add-location-to-ways   -i
       dense_file_array,INDEX-FILE” and to the flatnode store created by osm2pgsql.

       When  the  input  file is a full history file or a change file, the last location encountered in the file
       for any ID ends up in the index.  Usually this will be the  newest  location  (from  the  node  with  the
       highest version).

       This command will not work with negative node IDs.

       This commands reads its input file only once, so it can be streamed, ie.  it can read from STDIN.

osmiumcreate-locations-index exits with exit code

       0      if everything went alright,

       1      if there was an error processing the data, or

       2      if there was a problem with the command line arguments.

       Create node locations index from planet:

              osmium create-locations-index -i locations.idx planet.osm.pbf

       Set a node location in the index using an input file in OPL format:

              echo "n123 x-80.6042 y28.6083" | \
                  osmium create-locations-index -i locations.idx -F opl --update

       -F, --input-format=FORMAT
              The  format of the input file(s).  Can be used to set the input format if it can’t be autodetected
              from the file name(s).  This will set the format for all input files, there is no way to  set  the
              format for some input files only.  See osmium-file-formats(5) or the libosmium manual for details.

osmiumcreate-locations-index will not use a lot of memory.

       osmium-create-locations-index - create or update locations index from OSM file

       -i, --index-file=FILENAME
              The name of the index file.

       -u, --update
              Allow updating of existing file.

       • osmium(1), osmium-query-locations-index(1), osmium-file-formats(5)

       • Osmium website

       • osm2pgsql

osmiumcreate-locations-index -i INDEX-FILE [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE