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I need to download/create a PBF file containing all osm data for several french urban areas. To select data, I have, for each urban area, the values of the attribute ref:INSEE for every city composing the area.

What could be the best method to do this?

I'm looking for an automatable method, for example by a script with a boundary filter as a parameter.

Geofabrik seems to have automatic tasks to do it for every regions, country and continent.

My environments are a windows local machine and a linux server.

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The best place for subsetted datasets is geofabrik IMHO.

The tool of choice, if you want to keep the data in PBF format is Osmosis

It is a java Application and will run on Windows and Linux. I run mine on Windows 2008 R2 and Ubuntu Trusty.

Check Out The Beginners Guide I did not have too much trouble getting to grips with it.

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  • Thanks for your advice. I finally have a linux script downloading XML data using OSM XAPI with a bounding box, then converting the XML to PBF using Osmosis.
    – superrache
    Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 16:46
  • Welcome, For me it is a lot more efficient on Linux than Windows.
    – Mark Cupitt
    Commented Jan 13, 2015 at 1:04
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As an alternative to osmosis you can try to use osmconvert and osmfilter in your scripts. Availeable on both, WIN and Linux.

You can download a bigger country extract from geofabrik.de or other sources, and then do a kind of clipping with bounding boxes or maybe even polygon files.

Maybe there are even boundary relations which describe the exact administrative areas you are looking for.

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  • the clipping based on a polygon sounds great, I will try this osmconvert, thanks.
    – superrache
    Commented Jan 21, 2015 at 8:26

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