pyrosm | Read OpenStreetMap data from Protobuf files | Map library

pyrosm is a Python library typically used in Geo, Map applications. pyrosm has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Pyrosm is a Python library for reading OpenStreetMap data from Protocolbuffer Binary Format -files (*.osm.pbf) into Geopandas GeoDataFrames. Pyrosm makes it easy to extract various datasets from OpenStreetMap pbf-dumps including e.g. road networks, buildings, Points of Interest (POI), landuse and natural elements. Also fully customized queries are supported which makes it possible to parse the data from OSM with more specific filters. Pyrosm is easy to use and it provides a somewhat similar user interface as OSMnx. The main difference between pyrosm and OSMnx is that OSMnx reads the data over internet using OverPass API, whereas pyrosm reads the data from local OSM data dumps that can be downloaded e.g. from GeoFabrik's website. This makes it possible to read data faster thus allowing e.g. parsing street networks for the whole country fairly efficiently (however, see caveats). The library has been developed by keeping performance in mind, hence, it is mainly written in Cython (Python with C-like performance) which makes it probably faster than any other Python alternatives for parsing OpenStreetMap data. Pyrosm is built on top of another Cython library called Pyrobuf which is a faster Cython alternative to Google's Protobuf library: It provides 2-4x boost in performance for deserializing the protocol buffer messages compared to Google's version with C++ backend. Google's Protocol Buffers is a commonly used and efficient method to serialize and compress structured data which is also used by OpenStreetMap contributors to distribute the OSM data in PBF format (Protocolbuffer Binary Format). Documentation is available at