# Install osm2pgrouting with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts

Import OSM data into pgRouting database. Version 3.0.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install osm2pgrouting.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:osm2pgrouting
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install osm2pgrouting
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install osm2pgrouting
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: gis/osm2pgrouting/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install osm2pgrouting
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: osm2pgrouting from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:osm2pgrouting
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Source summary:** Import OSM data into pgRouting database
- **Homepage:** <https://pgrouting.org/docs/tools/osm2pgrouting.html>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pgRouting/osm2pgrouting>
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-02T00:19:40+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- osm2pgrouting (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.0.0
## Project history and usage

osm2pgrouting imports OpenStreetMap road-network data into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database shaped for pgRouting. It is a specialized bridge between raw OSM XML and graph-routing SQL workflows.

### Project history

The pgRouting/osm2pgrouting GitHub repository was created on October 30, 2010. Older pgRouting documentation credits Daniel Wendt as the primary original author and describes the project as later hosted on the pgRouting project site.

The tool's documentation and README place it firmly in the pgRouting stack: users prepare PostgreSQL, PostGIS, pgRouting, Boost, Expat, libpqxx, and CMake, then run the importer against an OSM file and an XML mapping configuration.

### Adoption history

Its adoption is narrower than osm2pgsql because it targets routing topology rather than general OSM rendering or analysis. Evidence of packaging in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, MacPorts, and FreeBSD ports shows it remains useful as a small import utility around pgRouting.

### How it is used

osm2pgrouting reads an OSM XML file, uses `mapconfig.xml` to select road types and road classes, and creates routing-oriented tables. The older pgRouting documentation emphasizes generated types and classes tables, which can be used to build more sophisticated cost functions.

### Why package nerds care

The package is a classic geospatial adapter: not a database, not a router, and not a renderer, but the glue that creates pgRouting-ready graph tables from OSM source data. Package maintainers care because its dependency stack crosses C++, PostgreSQL client libraries, PostGIS, and pgRouting ABI expectations.

### Timeline

- 2010-10-30: the pgRouting/osm2pgrouting repository is created on GitHub.
- Older pgRouting documentation records Daniel Wendt as the primary original author.
- Version 3.0.0 release notes discuss schema-level changes such as bigint identifiers and generated identity columns.

### Related projects

- pgRouting supplies the graph algorithms and database extension; PostGIS supplies spatial types and operations; PostgreSQL stores the imported network. osm2pgrouting is one importer in that stack.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/pgRouting/osm2pgrouting>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/osm2pgrouting>
- <https://github.com/pgRouting/osm2pgrouting>
- <https://github.com/pgRouting/osm2pgrouting/discussions/322>
- <https://ma.ellak.gr/edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=1092>
- <https://www.freshports.org/converters/osm2pgrouting>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - osm2pgrouting - 2.3.8-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: osm2pgrouting from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Tool to import OpenStreetMap data into a pgRouting database | https://github.com/pgRouting/osm2pgrouting
- Ubuntu apt - osm2pgrouting - 2.3.8-2build3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: osm2pgrouting from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Tool to import OpenStreetMap data into a pgRouting database | https://github.com/pgRouting/osm2pgrouting
- MacPorts - osm2pgrouting: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: gis/osm2pgrouting/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/osm2pgrouting.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/osm2pgrouting.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph