osmium-show - show OSM file

       Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.

                                                     1.17.0                                       OSMIUM-SHOW(1)

       -h, --help
              Show usage help.

       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.

       Show  the contents of the OSM-FILE on STDOUT, usually in a pager.  The output format can be set using the
       output-format/-f option, its shortcuts -d (debug format with colors), -o  (OPL),  or  -x  (XML),  or  the
       OSMIUM_SHOW_FORMAT environment variable.

       The  pager  can  be  set with the OSMIUM_PAGER or the PAGER environment variable.  If neither is set, the
       default less is used unless the option --no-pager is used.  If the pager variables are set  to  an  empty
       value or to cat, no pager is used.  On Windows there is no pager support at all.

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

osmiumshow 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.

       Show an OSM file using the default pager and default format:

              osmium show norway.osm.pbf

       Use more as a pager and only show relations:

              OSMIUM_PAGER=more osmium show -t r norway.osm.pbf

       Show using XML format:

              osmium show -x norway.osm.pbf

       -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.

osmiumshow does all its work on the fly and doesn’t keep much data in main memory.

       osmium-show - show OSM file

       -f, --output-format=FORMAT
              The  format  of  the  output  file.   Can  be  used  to  set the output file format if it can’t be
              autodetected from the output file name.  Seeosmium-file-formats(5) or the  libosmium  manual  for
              details.

       --no-pager
              Disable pager.

       -d, --format-debug
              Same as -f debug,color=true.

       -o, --format-opl
              Same as -f opl.

       -x, --format-xml
              Same as -f xml.

       -t, --object-type=TYPE
              Read  only objects of given type (node, way, relation, changeset).  By default all types are read.
              This option can be given multiple times.

       • osmium(1), osmium-cat(1), osmium-file-formats(5)

       • Osmium website

osmiumshow [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE