The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University and HeiGIT have published the release 1.0.0 “Kawésqar” of ohsome-planet:
This same consortium previously provided cloud-native access to OpenStreetMap (OSM) data1 including its edit history, as presented in a workshop2 at the 2024 State of the Map conference.
ohsome-planet was initially an internal tool used by the consortium to provide OSM data cloud-natively3 in the GeoParquet format. Using ohsome-planet, anybody can now create similar customizable exports. The tool relies on Java 21 and users have to build it themselves. The input data needs to be provided in the standard PBF format which can be obtained for defined geographic areas for example from Geofabrik4.
If this interests you, make sure to read the blog post with the announcement.
Footnotes
The data structure of OSM with its key-value-tagging scheme can be daunting to use, or render usable, in a relational database or in GIS environments.↩︎
If this interests you, follow the link and make sure not to miss looking through the slides on the left.↩︎
Not sure this is a real adverb (?) – oh well.↩︎
By the way: Besides PBF, Geofabrik provides other formats, some for free, some for a fee: Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and File Geodatabase.↩︎