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I'm trying to open a large OSM-File. Since it's 9GB I'm not getting anywhere with Editor, Notepad, JOSM, QuantumGIS... .

I would need to change the "coastline" tag so it's not replaced at the import.

Any chance to solve this?

editing

asked 22 May '12, 13:03

faxx
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The OS seems to be Windows (from comment on answer below)

(22 May '12, 15:34) SomeoneElse ♦

Yes. Windows 7, 64 bit. Windows XP, 32bit would be also available.

(22 May '12, 15:49) faxx

2 Answers:

On the general issue of "how do I do stuff with large files on Windows" there are a couple of things that you might find useful.

One is "unxutils", which contains a number of natively compiled binaries of Unix-like utilities on Windows - things like sed, grep, etc.
Another is Cygwin, which is designed to provide a Unix-like environment within a Windows system.
Finally it's worth mentioning "osmfilter" - there's a Windows binary of that available too.

answered 22 May '12, 15:49

SomeoneElse ♦
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You're not saying exactly what you're importing but in case you are using osm2pgsql, have you tried the --keep-coastlines command line switch?

Other than that, a simple tag exchange like that can easily be done with sed, e.g.

bzcat planet.osm.bz2 | sed -e s/k="natural" v="coastline"/k="foo" v="bar"/ | otherprogram...

answered 22 May '12, 13:37

Frederik Ramm ♦
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Yes I've tried --keep-coastline with osm2pgsql. The version I'm running says unrecognised option. I could not find a osm2pgsql version for Windows that knows this command... . Is there any i've just missed?

(22 May '12, 13:46) faxx