Planet.osm
Planet.osm is the OpenStreetMap data in one file: all the nodes, ways and relations that make up our map. A new version is released every week. It's a big file (XML variant over 250GB uncompressed, 16GB compressed).
There are also files called Extracts which contain OpenstreetMap Data for individual continents, countries, and metropolitan areas.
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Format
The two main formats used are PBF (efficient binary) or compressed OSM XML. PBF may help to reduce processing time.
For an overview over all osm file formats have a look at OSM file formats.
Downloading
See below for usage instructions.
Worldwide data
| Mirror | Updated | Diffs? |
|---|---|---|
| ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/openstreetmap/ | Weekly | Yes |
| http://ftp.ecki-netz.de/osm/ | Weekly | No |
| http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/misc/openstreetmap/ | Daily | No |
| http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/ and ftp and rsync | Weekly with 10h delay | Yes |
| http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/ | Daily | Yes |
| http://download.bbbike.org/osm/ | Weekly | No |
| ftp://ftp.up.ac.za/mirrors/openstreetmap/ | Weekly | Yes |
| ftp://ftp.pucpr.br/osm/mirror/ | Daily | No |
Country and area extracts
| Mirror | Area | Updated | Diffs? |
|---|---|---|---|
| http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/ | Germany and EU | Daily | Yes |
| http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ | daily extracts in PBF:
|
Daily | No |
| http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ | Most countries | Weekly or Monthly | No |
| http://www.osmaustralia.org/downloads.php | Australia and New Zealand | Daily | No |
| http://hypercube.telascience.org/planet/ | Netherlands, Scandinavia and Taiwan | Daily | Yes |
| http://download.freemap.sk/slovakia.osm/ | Slovakia | Daily | No |
| http://osm.kyblsoft.cz/archiv/ | Czech Republic | Daily | No |
| http://osm.stilpu.org | Romania | Daily | Yes |
| http://planet.openstreetmap.nl | Benelux (Netherlands, Belguim and Luxemburg), Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten | Daily | Yes |
| http://www.overpass-api.de | Overpass API excerpts up to ~300MB uncompressed | Hourly | No |
| http://gis-lab.info/projects/osm_dump/index.html | Russia regions, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and other xUSSR coutries | Daily | Yes |
| http://archive.mmu.edu.my/openstreetmap/ | Malaysia | Daily | Yes |
| http://data.osm-hr.org/ | Croatia and Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Monte Negro (hrsibame) | Daily | No |
| http://download.gfoss.it/osm/ | Italy and regions | Weekly | No |
| http://download.bbbike.org/osm/ | More than 200 cities and regions worldwide | Weekly | No |
| http://metro.teczno.com/ | Individual metropolitan areas:
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Weekly or Monthly | No |
| http://osm.kewl.lu/luxembourg.osm/ | Luxembourg (beta) | Hourly | No |
Global thematic extracts
- Maps without borders provides extracts of worldwide motorways and railways (currently only as shapefiles)
BitTorrent
- Latest planet torrent (third-party service)
- RSS feed
Original source
The originating URL is http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ for bz2 compressed xml and http://planet.openstreetmap.org/pbf/ for the pbf-version. Please use a mirror if you can.
Update frequency
A new version of planet.osm is released weekly (currently every Thursday morning). We have these, going back to the start of April 2006. The current size of a planet.osm file is about 250 GB (reduced to 14GB with PBF compression) as of July 2011.
The weekly dump normally starts at around 01:10am UK time on Wednesday morning and is guaranteed to contain all updates prior to that time. The dump is run within database transactions, but don't expect referential integrity. See Planet.osm/FAQ. The dump normally takes around 12 hours to complete.
Additionally we offer regular diffs. These are produced daily (under the 'daily' subdirectory) and more recently we also offer hourly diffs and minutely diffs. These have been produced with Osmosis and can be used to reconstruct the full dataset (see examples under the osmosis page for usage in various scenarios). Since these only contain the differences, they are much smaller files; A daily diff is generally about 40 MB compressed. For more information please see Planet.osm/diffs
Technical notes
Processing the file
See Databases#Database_Schemas and Databases#Tools_to_Populate_Databases on how to load an planet file into a database
See OSM_file_formats#Map-data on a list of tools which are able to manipulate osm files
See Frameworks for accessing osm files from your software.
Unpacking .bz2 files
Osmosis and osm2pgsql allow you to use the files in compressed form. If you need to unpack it from bz2 format, use 7-zip on Windows; on Linux just type bzip2 -d planet.osm.bz2; or your OS may support double-click unpacking. See Wikipedia's list of compression programs.
If you are handling the compression yourself with libbzip2, then note that the files are compressed with pbzip2 and contain multiple streams that need to be handled as described in section 3.4.8 of the bzip2 documentation.
During download, the network will be your bottleneck. Once you have the file you will need to unpack it, and then disk I/O will be your bottleneck. Or you can work with the bzip'ed file, but then the CPU will be your bottleneck. If you have sufficient space to unpack the full planet file, you can save a lot of time and disk thrashing by unpacking it on the fly while downloading it: try wget -O - http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet_latest.osm.bz2 |bzcat >planet_latest.osm
Additional technical notes
wget: Due to the size of the planet files, some older distributions of wget do not work any more. They are restricted to files of < 2GB, and attempting to download files larger than that will report a negative file size and fail -- obtain a newer version of wget if that happens to you.
Other planet files
- Old versions of the planet file in bz2-compressed XML-format are available at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ and the mirrors as well.
- Old versions of the planet in the PBF_Format are available at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/pbf/
- An experimental full history file is available, containing every revision of each object.
- There is currently no dump of GPS traces available.
