PBF/Software Compliance

This page documents which kind of PBF support is available in software.

Program name	reading				writing				Notes
	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed
Osmosis	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	Osmosis uses the PBF reference implementation. From v0.37 on.
pbf2osm	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	C++ implementation by SdK
parsepbf.py	yes	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no
pbftoosm	yes	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	(not maintained any longer, please use osmconvert instead)
osmconvert	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no
maptool (navit)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MoNav and OSRM	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	from version 0.3 (MoNav), from 0.2 (OSRM)
Osmium and osmium_convert	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	osmium_convert has no command-line option to switch of dense or metadata, but the underlying framework provides switches to enable/disable those features.
Imposm	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
OsmAndMapCreator	yes	?	yes	?	no	no	no	no	from 0.5.1
mkgmap	yes	yes	yes	yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
splitter	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes		yes
Maperitive	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Osm2GpsMid	yes	?	yes	?	no	no	no	no
osm2pgsql	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	from SVN r24099; only if PBF libraries available at compile time.
JOSM	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	Read from JOSM 4541 with PBF plugin from SVN r26962. See ticket 6886. Write from JOSM 7562 with PBF plugin from SVN r30660. See ticket 9704.
phyghtmap	no	no	no	no	yes	no	yes	no	From version 1.40 (with python-protobuf installed), from version 1.42 natively.
Brigantine	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	from version 1306 (by GDAL 1.10)
Spatial Manager Desktop™	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Spatial Manager™ for BricsCAD	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
osm4j	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes