osmcoastline_ways command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

osmcoastline_ways: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: osmcoastline_ways: command not found

Solutions to osmcoastline_ways: command not found

How To Fix osmcoastline_ways: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu osmcoastline_ways is provided by osmcoastline package.

osmcoastline is:

OSMCoastline extracts the coastline from an OSM planet file and assembles all the pieces into polygons for use in map renderers etc.

OSMCoastline relies on the Osmium library for its OpenStreetMap data handling.

The Osmium library has extensive support for all types of OSM entities: nodes, ways, relations, and changesets. It allows reading from and writing to OSM files in XML and PBF formats, including change files and full history files. Osmium can store OSM data in memory and on disk in various formats and using various indexes. Its easy to use handler interface allows you to quickly write data filtering and conversion functions. Osmium can create WKT, WKB, OGR, GEOS and GeoJSON geometries for easy conversion into many GIS formats and it can assemble multipolygons from ways and relations.

This package contains the OSMCoastline utilities.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install osmcoastline

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install osmcoastline.

sudo apt -y install osmcoastline

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install osmcoastline

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix osmcoastline_ways command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.