osmpbf-outline(1)

💅 osmpbf-outline — bestie's guide to peeking inside your map files

okay so this is a General Commands Manual page for osmpbf-outline, and honestly? it's giving backstage-pass energy for your .osm.pbf files. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

osmpbf-outline — literally just here to outline the content of an .osm.pbf or .osh.pbf file. that's it, that's the job 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

osmpbf-outline [ --color ] filename

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so osmpbf-outline generates a colored outline of an .osm.pbf or .osh.pbf file, revealing its inner structure. it's like an x-ray but make it pretty ✨

ngl though, it does not decode all the information, and it does not check for all possible mistakes. it will warn you about some bad mistakes you can make when generating .osm.pbf files — so it's a vibe check, not a full audit, bestie 🙈

who's this for? it's for authors of .osm.pbf readers and writers 👑 and it's genuinely useful for understanding the inner blob/block structure of .osm.pbf files.

and the source code? heavily documented. so if you wanna learn how to read and write .osm.pbf files with C++, this is a great starting point. no cap 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -c, --color — usually colorization is disabled when writing to a file descriptor that is not a tty (eg. when the output is piped to a file or to a pager like more or less). some pagers can handle ANSI color code (more can, less can when invoked as less -R). to enforce colorization when working with such pagers, specify the --color flag. periodt 💅

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

osmpbf-outline germany.osm.pbf

💜 AUTHOR 💜

• Peter Koerner <peter@mazdermind.de>
• Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>

🫶 THE SIGN-OFF 🫶

this little icon was brought to you from the LOCAL manual section, under the osmpbf-outline(1) page name in the General Commands Manual. go forth and outline something iconic, bestie 💖🦋🌸