I’m sure this has been asked thousands of times, but how do I view the map extracts offline? (.osm and .pbf) Is there a (native) app I can use? Can’t find any clear information.
I’m sure this has been asked thousands of times, but how do I view the map extracts offline? (.osm and .pbf) Is there a (native) app I can use? Can’t find any clear information.
What are you trying to do with it?
.pbf is a compression format (a bit like a .zip-file) which contains the .osm-file. The .osm-file is nothing more then an XML-file with a specific format and a
.osm-extension.Those are not meant for day-to-day users but more for developers.There are some programs able to open those files, such as JOSM or Osmosis.
To view it offline. There is probably a far better way I am missing.
Did you see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_offline already?