If your ultimate goal is (the standard for maps), GDAL’s ogr2ogr is your best friend. However, GDAL reads PBF via the OSM driver.
| Aspect | PBF | JSON | |--------|-----|------| | File size | Very small | Large (uncompressed) | | Human-readable | No | Yes | | Streaming support | Yes (binary) | Yes (but careful) | | Indexing | Not directly | Yes (via tools like jq) | | Web browser parsing | Impossible | Native ( JSON.parse ) | convert pbf file to json
protoc --json_out=. input.pbf --proto_path=. --proto_file=my_message.proto If your ultimate goal is (the standard for
This article provides an exhaustive guide to converting PBF to JSON. We will cover command-line tools (Osmium, GDAL, OSM2PGSQL), Python scripts, Node.js solutions, performance considerations, and common pitfalls. import osmium import json import sys Running the
import osmium import json import sys
Running the protoc compiler with the --json_out option: