osm2pgrouting(1)

💖 NAME 💖

osm2pgrouting — bestie, it's literally the tool that imports OpenStreetMap data straight into a pgRouting database 🗺️✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

osm2pgrouting -f file [OPTIONS]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so osm2pgrouting is a command line tool, and its whole thing is making it so easy to pull OpenStreetMap data into a pgRouting database 💅

and the way it does it?? it builds the routing network topology for you, automatically, no manual labor, no tears 😭👑 and then it creates tables for feature types and road classes. she just handles it. main character energy fr fr.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🎀 Help 🎀

• --help — prints the help message for this version, so you know what you're doing 🫶
• -v, --version — prints the version string, iconic little flex 💖

🌈 General 🌈

• -f file, --file file — the name of the OSM file. REQUIRED, bestie, you cannot skip this one 🚨
• -c file, --conf file — the name of the configuration XML file. (default: /usr/share/osm2pgrouting/mapconfig.xml) 📄
• --schema schema — the database schema where the tables go. leave it blank and it defaults to whatever default schema PostgreSQL's search_path is dictating 👑
• --prefix prefix — a prefix that gets added at the beginning of the table names ✨
• --suffix suffix — a suffix that gets added at the end of the table names ✨
• --addnodes — imports the osm_nodes table 🫶
• --clean — drops previously created tables. yes she will delete them. dramatic but purposeful 💅

💜 Database options 💜

• -d name, --dbname name — the name of your database. REQUIRED 🚨
• -U name, --username name — the name of the user who has write access to the database. (default: postgres) ✍️
• -h host, --host host — the host of your PostgreSQL database. (default: localhost) 🖥️
• -p port, --port port — the port of your database. (default: 5432) 🔌
• -W password, --password password — the password for database access 🤫🔑

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quick vibe check: -f file and -d name are the two Required ones. everything else has a default or is optional. slay accordingly 💖

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that's the whole page, bestie, you're officially qualified 🎓💅 this gem was documented on 11 June 2026 — go forth and route some roads 🛣️👑✨