When osm2pgrouting is run without anything set, the output shows us the options that are required and available to use with osm2pgrouting:

To run the osm2pgrouting command, we have a small number of required parameters. Double-check the paths pointing to mapconfig.xml and cleveland.osm before running the following command:

osm2pgrouting --file cleveland.osm --conf /usr/share/osm2pgrouting/mapconfig.xml --dbname postgis_cookbook --user me --schema chp06 --host localhost --prefix cleveland_ --clean

Our dataset may be quite large, and could take some time to process and import—be patient. The end of the output should say something like the following:

Our new vector table, by default, is named cleveland_ways. If no -prefix flag was used, the table name would just be ways.

You should have the created following tables: