An R interface to the OpenStreetMap API
v0.6 for fetching and
saving raw geodata from/to the OpenStreetMap database. This package
allows access to OSM maps data as well as map notes, GPS traces,
changelogs, and users data. osmapiR
enables editing or exploring the
history of OSM objects, and is not intended to access OSM map data for
other purposes. See Related packages for other
packages to access OSM map data.
Important
You are responsible for following the API Usage
Policy. You can
modify the user agent of the requests by setting the option
osmapir.user_agent
:
options(osmapir.user_agent = "my new user agent")
Respect and follow the standards and conventions of the OpenStreetMap community. If you plan to do automated edits, check the Automated Edits code of conduct.
To install latest CRAN version:
install.packages("osmapiR")
You can install the development version of osmapiR from GitHub with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ropensci/osmapiR") # Without vignettes
## With vignettes (also accessible at https://docs.ropensci.org/osmapiR/ > Articles)
# install.packages("rmarkdown") # Needed to build vignettes.
remotes::install_github("ropensci/osmapiR", build_vignettes = TRUE)
For an overview of the functions, check ?osmapiR-package
or the
web.
For basic examples, check
vignette("osmapiR", package="osmapiR")
.
- osmdata implements the Overpass API to query data from OSM.
- osmextract matches,
downloads, converts, and imports bulk OSM data (
.pbf
files). - OpenStreetMap accesses high resolution raster maps using the OpenStreetMap protocol.
osmapiR
is the only package to access other OSM data than the maps
data (map notes, GPS traces, changelogs and users). It is also useful to
get the history of the OSM objects and is the only package that allows
editing and upload any kind of data.
To access OSM map data for purposes other than editing or exploring the
history of objects, it may be better to use other packages that
implement the Overpass API
(osmdata) or that works
with .pbf
files
(osmextract).
Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.