+For example, let's download the District of Columbia from Geofabrik or [any other region](https://download.geofabrik.de):
+
+ wget https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/district-of-columbia-latest.osm.pbf
+
+You can now use Docker to load this extract into your local Docker-based OSM instance:
+
+ docker-compose run --rm web osmosis \
+ -verbose \
+ --read-pbf district-of-columbia-latest.osm.pbf \
+ --log-progress \
+ --write-apidb \
+ host="db" \
+ database="openstreetmap" \
+ user="openstreetmap" \
+ validateSchemaVersion="no"
+
+**Windows users:** Powershell uses `` ` `` and CMD uses `^` at the end of each line, e.g.:
+
+ docker-compose run --rm web osmosis `
+ -verbose `
+ --read-pbf district-of-columbia-latest.osm.pbf `
+ --log-progress `
+ --write-apidb `
+ host="db" `
+ database="openstreetmap" `
+ user="openstreetmap" `
+ validateSchemaVersion="no"