The data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and the data from the Overture Maps Foundation (OMF; in parts, of course, also OSM data) can be valuable resources. However, accessing and using this data is not straight-forward for everybody.
Via the Swiss Territorial Data Lab, I have learned about two new tools that, depending on your expertise and current workflow may make accessing and using OSM and OMF easier:
QuackOSM is a tool for reading OSM data in the
PBF1 format using DuckDB and itsspatialextension. QuackOSM can filter OSM data based on geometry and thematically using OSM key-value tags.OvertureMaestro is tool for reading OMF data and saving it to GeoParquet. It can filter OMF data based on geometry or using
PyArrowexpressions.
Both tools are based on Python and open-source. They use multi-threading and caching, and can be used as Python modules as well as on the command line. The tools are developed by Kraina AI, the Geospatial & Mobility Research Group at the Wrocław University for Science and Technology.
