GDAL 1.10 ogr2ogr OSM "Unable to open datasource"

Question

I have a problem with ogr2ogr and osm file.

I install from source (on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS) newest GDAL libary and OGR still can't read osm files.

gdal-config --version
1.10.0
ogr2ogr --version
GDAL 1.10.0, released 2013/04/24
ogrinfo
Supported Formats:
  -> "ESRI Shapefile" (read/write)
  -> "MapInfo File" (read/write)
  -> "UK .NTF" (readonly)
  -> "SDTS" (readonly)
  -> "TIGER" (read/write)
  -> "S57" (read/write)
  -> "DGN" (read/write)
  -> "VRT" (readonly)
  -> "REC" (readonly)
  -> "Memory" (read/write)
  -> "BNA" (read/write)
  -> "CSV" (read/write)
  -> "GML" (read/write)
  -> "GPX" (read/write)
  -> "KML" (read/write)
  -> "GeoJSON" (read/write)
  -> "GMT" (read/write)
  -> "PostgreSQL" (read/write)
  -> "PCIDSK" (read/write)
  -> "XPlane" (readonly)
  -> "AVCBin" (readonly)
  -> "AVCE00" (readonly)
  -> "DXF" (read/write)
  -> "Geoconcept" (read/write)
  -> "GeoRSS" (read/write)
  -> "GPSTrackMaker" (read/write)
  -> "PGDump" (read/write)
  -> "GPSBabel" (read/write)
  -> "SUA" (readonly)
  -> "OpenAir" (readonly)
  -> "PDS" (readonly)
  -> "HTF" (readonly)
  -> "AeronavFAA" (readonly)
  -> "EDIGEO" (readonly)
  -> "SVG" (readonly)
  -> "Idrisi" (readonly)
  -> "ARCGEN" (readonly)
  -> "SEGUKOOA" (readonly)
  -> "SEGY" (readonly)
  -> "ODS" (read/write)
  -> "XLSX" (read/write)
  -> "PDF" (read/write)

When I try this:

ogrinfo UMP-PL-CCBySA_20130717.osm

and I get this:

ERROR 0:
FAILURE:
Unable to open datasource `UMP-PL-CCBySA_20130717.osm' with the following drivers.
Supported Formats:
  -> "ESRI Shapefile" (read/write)
...
...

Anyone know what I do wrong?

Answer 1

# Start with a clean copy of the svn source code repo:
$ svn co http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal

$ cd gdal

# Run configure and check its output, which should say something like:
$ ./configure
...
...
  Expat support:             yes
...
  SQLite support:            yes
...

# If it doesn't, check config.log to locate the problem(s) 
# and consult ./configure --help on how to fix them

# Once you configured correctly, run
$ make

# Then check the supported formats with
$ ./apps/ogrinfo --formats 

# Eventually, you run
$ sudo make install

Answer 2

As mentioned already, you need to configure like this:

$ ./configure --with-spatialite=yes --with-sqlite3 (...)

If things work fine, you will end up with this line in the list of supported vector formats:

  -> "OSM" (readonly)

Answer 3

Based on this comment, and some hours of my debugging my process, may I suggest that the Driver Error may be due to a corrupt source file.

ogr2ogr missing drivers

Please check with a sample source file with the desired format.

Answer 4

Check permissions : not having read right on the source (i.e. whatever.osm) file would also lead to the same error. This can happen easily e.g. when you downloaded the file with your usual user then switch to a tab where another user is logged in (randomly : postgres…).

Answer 5

According to the comments here:

needs libsqlite3 (and libexpat for OSM XML)

OSM isn't included by default.