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 739.7GB uncompressed, 53.1GB bz2 compressed and 33.6GB PBF at 2016-11-29).
There are also files called Extracts which contain OpenStreetMap Data for individual continents, countries, and metropolitan areas.
Format
The two main formats used are PBF or compressed OSM XML. PBF is a binary format that is smaller to download and much faster to process and should be used when possible. Most common tools using OSM data support PBF.
For an overview over all osm file formats have a look at OSM file formats.
If you are using traditional GIS tools you may want to look at Processed data providers.
Downloading
See below for usage instructions.
Planet.osm mirrors
| Mirror | Updated | Diffs | PBF | HTTP | FTP | RSYNC | IPv6 | LOC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/openstreetmap/ | Weekly | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | DE |
| http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/openstreetmap/ | Weekly | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | US |
| http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/misc/openstreetmap/ | Weekly | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NL |
| https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/ | Weekly (+10h) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | IE |
| http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/planet.openstreetmap.org/ | Daily | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | DE |
| http://download.bbbike.org/osm/planet/ | Weekly | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | DE |
| Internet Archive (available under various items) | Daily | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | US |
| http://free.nchc.org.tw/osm.planet/ (source: gwdg.de) | Daily | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | TW |
Country and area extracts
Worldwide extract sources
| Mirror | Area | Updated | Diffs? |
|---|---|---|---|
| http://download.gisgraphy.com/ | weekly extracts in PBF:
|
Monthly |
No |
| https://download.geofabrik.de/ | daily extracts in PBF:
|
Daily | Yes |
| http://osmdata.thinkgeo.com/ | Most countries in the world (shp file) Not for free! | Weekly | No |
| http://www.overpass-api.de | Overpass API excerpts up to ~300MB uncompressed | |
Yes, since v0.7.50 |
| http://download.bbbike.org/osm/ | More than 200 cities and regions worldwide or extract your own individual area (OSM, PBF, Garmin cycle map, Osmand, mapsforge, Navit, SVG, PNG, maps.me and ESRI shapefile format) | Weekly | No |
| https://mapzen.com/data/metro-extracts/ | Individual cities:
|
Weekly | No |
| Trimble Data Marketplace | Worldwide coverage:
|
Monthly | No |
Regional extract sources
| Mirror | Area | Updated | Diffs? |
|---|---|---|---|
| http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/ | Germany and EU | Daily | Yes |
| http://gis-lab.info/projects/osm_dump/index.html | Russia regions, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and other xUSSR countries | Daily | Yes |
| http://planet.openstreetmap.nl | Benelux (The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg), Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten | Unknown (last updated 2014-11-22) |
Yes |
| http://download.freemap.sk/slovakia.osm/ | Slovakia | Daily | No |
| http://osm.kyblsoft.cz/archiv/ | Czech Republic | Daily | No |
| http://data.osm-hr.org/ | Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia (Geofabrik copy), Macedonia, Romania, Serbia | Daily | No |
| http://www.geodati.fmach.it/gfoss_geodata/osm/italia_osm.html | Italy and regions | Weekly | No |
| http://osm.kewl.lu/luxembourg.osm/ | Luxembourg (beta) | Hourly | No |
| planet.osm.ch | Swiss extract from the Swiss OpenStreetMap association. Including all lakes crossing the Swiss boundary and a few km of the surrounding countries. | Hourly | Yes |
| http://planet.openstreetmap.ie | Island of Ireland extract | Hourly | Yes |
| http://osm.ramuno.lt/downloads/ | Lithuania | Daily | No |
| estratti.openstreetmap.it | Italy | Daily | No |
Global thematic extracts
- http://openstreetmapdata.com provides shapefiles of global coastlines, land polygons or water polygons.
- Trimble Data Marketplace provides worldwide coverage of all Map Features tags in many GIS file formats. View a quick walkthrough.
BitTorrent
- Bittorrent service at osm-torrent.torres.voyager.hr has been shut down as of 2014-09-15
- As a replacement mainly for Osm2Garmin users, torrents for PBF files are available starting from 2014-09-24 at this site.
Original source
The originating URL is https://planet.openstreetmap.org/. Please use a mirror if you can.
Update frequency
A new version of planet.osm is released weekly (currently every Wednesday morning). We have these, going back to the start of April 2006.
The size of a planet.osm file is about can be seen in the header information on the planet download page. Planet files are very large (tens of GBs) so please check the size before starting to download.
The weekly dump normally starts at around 01:10am UK time on Monday morning and is guaranteed to contain all updates prior to that time. The dump is constructed from a database dump using conversion software, and the result should ensure referential integrity. Please note that this doesn't always apply to extracts - see Planet.osm/FAQ. The dump and conversion normally takes around 48 hours to complete, in total, and the result is usually ready on Wednesday morning.
Note: The timestamp of the file is recorded in it like this : <osm version="0.6" generator="OpenStreetMap planet.c" (...) timestamp="2013-01-02T01:10:14Z"> it will be useful to decide what "diffs" to use if you want them :
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 at OSM Wiki pages Osmosis and osmupdate). 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 and data access APIs#Database Schemas for loading a planet file into a database.
See OSM file formats#Map-data for 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 bz2-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 curl https://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet_latest.osm.bz2 | pbzip2 -cd >planet_latest.osm
Additional technical notes
wget: Alternatively to curl, wget -O - may be used. Due to the size of the planet files, older distributions of wget may fail to work since they may not support file sizes larger than 2 GiB, and attempting to download files larger than that will report a negative file size and fail.
pbzip2: may be replaced by the single-threaded bzip2 -cd / bzcat as well.
Other planet files
- GPS Traces can be found in planet.gpx
- Old versions of the planet file are available at https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ and the mirrors as well.
- An experimental full history file is available, containing every revision of each object.
- An unofficial history file from Nov, 2013 can be found here :http://data.openstreetmapdata.com/planet-history-2013-11-02.osh.pbf (See this thread for more details)
License
Planet files remain licensed under the same license as the master OpenStreetMap geo-database from which they are extracted - currently this is the Open Database License. Planet files from before September 12, 2012 have a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
