Filter pbf file for OpenStreetMap

Question

I want to filter PBF file for OpenStreetMap by highways. For example highways = residential. I'm novice in OpenStreetMap. I read some info and start to use these tools to get results, they are osmfilter, osmconvert, osmosis

Stages:

1) I convert pbf-file to osm, for using it in osmconvert. For example:osmconvert norway.pbf >norway.osm

2) I filter osm-file via osmfilter, result file I get in pbf-format. For example: osmfilter norway.osm.pbf --keep="highway=primary =secondary waterway=river" >streets.osm

3) In final I process filtered pbf-file via osmosis

My problem is filtered pbf file is in an application/xml format, but osmosis works with pbf file which is in application/octet-stream format. How to fix it? Or which filter methods are better? May be I need change application/xml format to application/octet-stream. How to do it?

Answer 1

osmosis can read XML and PBF files. Just use --read-pbf for PBF files and --read-xml for XML files.

Alternatively consider using osmium-tool instead. See the manual for filtering by tags.