Open Street Map pbf file rendering: how to?

[geo_c]

I recently downloaded some large open street map osm.pbf files and now I'm trying to determine the best way to render them. I notice a libosmpbf-java_1.3.3 package in the package manager and osmpbf-bin_1.3.3 along with various other tools.

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing that could offer advice.

The question being, what's an effective tool to either convert pbf to osm, or render pbf directly.

thanks
@geo_c

[norgo]

@geo_c
for converting of pbf files into osm format you can use osmconvert commandline tool

Example
osmconvert europe.pbf >europe.osm

be warned the osm output file will be huge !

https://www.mankier.com/1/osmconvert

files of attached pet are compiled in SLC64
they are not tested in other distros !

(osmctools and merkaartor are installable via ppm in SLC64)

[geo_c]

Thanks @norgo! I'll check that pet out. See what I can do with it. I thought this question was going to fade into the sunset. You never know when someone will come though.

I'm running OsmAnd on my ungoogled android, and that's cool, although it seems like the search address function doesn't work very well at all. It returns lots of options for streets and intersections, but almost never the actual address. Maybe I'm not using it right.