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In osmdatar/osmdata: Import 'OpenStreetMap' Data as Simple Features or Spatial Objects

title: osmdata tags: - openstreetmap - spatial - R - Simple Features authors: - name: Mark Padgham affiliation: 1 - name: Robin Lovelace affiliation: 3 - name: Maëlle Salmon affiliation: 2 - name: Bob Rudis affiliation: 4 affiliations: - name: Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria index: 1 - name: ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain. index: 2 - name: Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds, U.K. index: 3 - name: Rapid7 index: 4 date: 8 March 2017 bibliography: vignettes/osmdata-refs.bib nocite: | @*

Summary

osmdata imports OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into R as either Simple Features or R Spatial objects, respectively able to be processed with the R packages sf and sp. OSM data are extracted from the Overpass API and processed with very fast C++ routines for return to R. The package enables simple Overpass queries to be constructed without the user necessarily understanding the syntax of the Overpass query language, while retaining the ability to handle arbitrarily complex queries. Functions are also provided to enable recursive searching between different kinds of OSM data (for example, to find all lines which intersect a given point). The package is faster than current alternatives for importing OSM data into R and is the only one compatible with sf.

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