osrm-backend: Profile profiles/car.lua not found!

you pass the path to the profile file when running osrm-extract:

osrm-extract berlin-latest.osm.pbf -p profiles/car.lua

in the above case, it’s a relative path, ie. relative from the folder you’re in when running osrm-extract. the above command should work if you cloned the osrm-backend repo and are in the root folder when running osrm-extract, since the repo contains profiles/car.lua.

you can also pass an absolute path, e.g. -p /home/myuser/myprofiles/car.lua. you would have to adjust to the acual location of your car.lua file.

@billystalnaker Any reason you can’t just run osrm-extract -p wherever/profiles/car.lua map.osm ?

I had the same problem. In my case, my file structure was looking like this:

 - osrm-backend
   - profiles
     - car.lua
     ...
 - my-project
   - my-map.osm.pbf

I was running the command in my-project and I specified the path to the car.lua:

osrm-extract my-map.osm.pbf -p ../osrm-backend/profiles/car.lua

That worked and generated my-map.osrm. Then I ran:

osrm-contract my-map.osrm

Quickstart:

wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany/berlin-latest.osm.pbf

osrm-extract berlin-latest.osm.pbf -p profiles/car.lua osrm-contract berlin-latest.osrm osrm-routed berlin-latest.osrm

Those steps didn’t work for me…

[error] Profile profiles/car.lua not found!

If you are not going to explain, or try to resolve the problem, please don’t answer.

Yeah that article is super outdated. Don’t use it. I tried to get them to update it once but it has to go through review process, needs to get tested on their infrastructure etc.

Please use the Wiki https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki

Closing as not actionable on our side.

it’s in the osrm-backend repo: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/tree/master/profiles. if you clone the repo, you get all files, including the profiles.