PBF/Software Compliance

This page documents which kind of PBF support is available in software.

OSM data libraries, OSM data conversion utilities and editors

Program name	reading				writing				Notes
	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed
Osmosis	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	Osmosis uses the PBF reference implementation. From v0.37 on. Unmaintained since September 2018.
osmconvert	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no
Osmium (aka Libosmium), Osmium Tool and Pyosmium	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	Libosmium can be build without PBF support but that's a rarely used option.
JOSM	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	Read from JOSM 4541 with PBF plugin from SVN r26962. See ticket 6886. Write from JOSM 7562 with PBF plugin from SVN r30660. See ticket 9704. Read from JOSM r18695 without plugin support. See ticket 22603.
osm4j	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
osm4scala	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Vespucci	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	12.2 and later

Other software strongly focused on OSM data

Program name	reading				writing				Notes
	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed
maptool (navit)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MoNav	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	from version 0.3 (MoNav)
Imposm	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
OsmAndMapCreator	yes	?	yes	?	no	no	no	no	from 0.5.1
mkgmap	yes	yes	yes	yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
splitter	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes		yes
Maperitive	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
osm2pgsql	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	From version 0.70.5 (SVN revision 24099): only if PBF libraries available at compile time. From version 0.90.0 on: Osm2pgsql uses Libosmium (see above) as dependency to provide PBF support
phyghtmap	no	no	no	no	yes	no	yes	no	From version 1.40 (with python-protobuf installed), from version 1.42 natively.
GeoDesk	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	Import format for gol build

Applications whose main purpose is not processing OSM data

Program name	reading				writing				Notes
	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed	dense	non-dense	zlib/deflate	uncompressed
GDAL	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Manifold Release 9	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	From version 9.0.171 can read whole-planet PBF using native Manifold PBF dataport. proprietary software
Manifold Viewer	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	Free, read-only version of Release 9. proprietary software
Spatial Manager Desktop™	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	proprietary software
Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	proprietary software
Spatial Manager™ for BricsCAD	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	proprietary software