pbfhoggFast OpenStreetMap PBF toolkit for Rust

Read, write, and transform .osm.pbf files at planet scale. Pipelined parallel decoding, blob passthrough, and 25+ CLI commands.

Planet-Scale Performance

Read 59M elements in 0.31s (parallel) or 1.3s (pipelined). Apply a daily diff to 18.8 GB North America in 12 seconds at under 600 MB RSS.

inspect, sort, extract, apply-changes, add-locations-to-ways, tags-filter, diff, getid, and more. Cross-validated against osmium.

All protobuf encoding and decoding is hand-rolled wire format. Pure Rust zlib via zlib-rs. No C compiler required.