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The goal is to find all waterways in Open Street Maps globally.

This is the equivalent for a random area in China in overpass turbo. Instead of doing it for this bounded area, I want to query globally.

Overpass turbo gets overloaded by a global query but I found osmosis in a related related2 question which seem to be able to get the job done.

wget -O- https://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet/planet-latest.osm.bz2 | bzcat | osmosis --rx - <filter args here> --wx my-compressed-output.osm.gz

I struggle however in translating the overpass query to the osmosis query and got lost in osmosis documentation.

How would I filter the waterways in osmosis? I think I need --way-key (--wk) or --way-key-value (--wkv) but like to check before executing a massive query.(50GB download)

Alternative solutions (non osmosis) are welcome too.

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    I would start with a small country extract from download.geofabrik.de before applying any filter logic to a planet size file. In addition, osmium-tool along with PBF file format are more efficient for the task at hand.
    – mmd
    Feb 3, 2018 at 17:20
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    ... or try wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmfilter as alternative to osmosis.
    – stephan75
    Feb 14, 2018 at 20:13
  • any thoughts on the differences between osmosis and Osmfilter?
    – RutgerH
    Feb 15, 2018 at 10:40
  • "but like to check before executing a massive query.(50GB download)" I would test it on a smaller download
    – reducing activity
    Jul 18, 2018 at 9:12

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You might wan to try

--tf accept-relations waterway=* --used-way --used-node

or alternatively accept-ways

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