Question about the loading of osm data

[gujiaqivadin]

Hello, thx for your great work of orienternet. I have a question about the loading of osm data. I found that in reader.py, it supports loading OSMData from "from_dict", "from_json" and "from_xml". But the main format of osm.data is "xx.osm.pbf". I wonder the utils functions of openstreetmap is written by yourself or from other resources. Or can you provide a "from_pbf" function in the code.

Thank you very much!

[sarlinpe]

Geofabrik also serves compressed XML files as .osm.bz2, which you just need to extract. Alternatively, you can convert a binary file .osm.pbf to an XML file .osm using the osmium tool. I will check whether this can be done in the code using pyosmium or so - feel free to send a PR if you get it working.

[gujiaqivadin]

Hello, I finish the convertion by the following steps:
conda install -c conda-forge osmium-tool
and
osmium cat xx.osm.pbf -o xx.osm

The osmium tool is very convenient!