PyDriosm

PyDriosm is an open-source tool for researchers/practitioners to easily download and read OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in popular file formats such as protobuf binary format (PBF) and shapefile, which are available for free download from Geofabrik and BBBike. The package also provides a convenient way for PostgreSQL-based I/O and storage of parsed OSM data.

Installation

To install the latest release of pydriosm from PyPI via pip:

pip install --upgrade pydriosm

For more information, please refer to Installation.

Documentation

The full PyDriosm documentation (including detailed examples and a quick-start tutorial) is hosted on ReadTheDocs: [HTML] [PDF].

License

• PyDriosm is licensed under GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+).
• The free OpenStreetMap data, which is used for the development of PyDriosm, is licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).

Cite as

Fu, Q. (2020). PyDriosm: an open-source tool for downloading, reading and PostgreSQL-based I/O of OpenStreetMap data. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4281194

@software{qian_fu_pydriosm_4281194,
  author    = {Qian Fu},
  title     = {{PyDriosm: an open-source tool for downloading, reading
                and PostgreSQL-based I/O of OpenStreetMap data}},
  year      = 2020,
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.4718623},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4281194}
}

Note: Please also refer to the export options from Zenodo to reference the specific version of PyDriosm as appropriate.