debian man page for osmosis

OSMOSIS(1)							Osmosis User Manual							OSMOSIS(1)

NAME
       osmosis - command line OpenStreetMap data processor

SYNOPSIS
       osmosis [--command command parameters ...] ...

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the osmosis command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       osmosis is a command-line Java program that processes OpenStreetMap data. It consistes of a series of component which can be chained
       together in order to perform operations on OpenStreetMap databases or XML files.

       Such options include:

       o   Generate and load dumps from and to a database.

       o   Produce changesets comparing databases and files and applying them to other databases and files.

       o   Sort data contained in a file.

       o   Extract data contained in a bounding box or in a polygon.

OPTIONS
       The commands and arguments accepted by osmosis are described in details and shown in examples in the page
       http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis and its subpages.

BUGS
       The upstreams BTS can be found at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/. Bugs are also discussed on upstream mailing list, at
       http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev.

AUTHOR
       Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009 Giovanni Mascellani

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at
       your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

osmosis 							    04/01/2010								OSMOSIS(1)