How do you convert OSM XML to geojson?

Question

I want to take the XML output of a Xapi query and display it using leaflet or polymaps. How can I do that? Is there an easy way to convert XML to geojson

Answer 1

OSM2GEO - A JS Converter to convert OSM to GeoJSON

* OSM2GEO - OSM to GeoJSON converter
* OSM to GeoJSON converter takes in a .osm XML file as input and produces
* corresponding GeoJSON object.
*
* AUTHOR: P.Arunmozhi <>
* DATE : 26 / Nov / 2011
* LICENSE : WTFPL - Do What The F##% You Want To Public License
* LICENSE URL: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
*
* DEPENDENCY: OSM2GEO entirely depends on jQuery for the XML parsing and
* DOM traversing. Make sure you include <script src="somewhere/jquery.js">
* </script> before you include osm2geo.js
*
* USAGE: This script contains a single function -> geojson osm2geo(osmXML)
* It takes in a .osm (xml) as parameter and returns the corresponding
* GeoJson object."

Credit to P.Arunmozhi

https://gist.github.com/1396990

Answer 2

The development (as march 2013) version of gdal has read support for OSM, both for plain XML and PBF format.

So you can convert your OSM file with:

ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON myfile.geojson myfile.osm.pbf