PyrOSM: working with Open Street Map data

Author:Murphy  |  View: 23701  |  Time: 2025-03-23 12:21:04
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If you've worked with OSM data before, you know it's not the easiest to extract. OSM data can be huge, and finding performant solutions for what you want to analyze is often a challenge. PyrOSM is a package that makes the process of reading in and working with OSM data much more efficient. How? Well, PyrOSM is build on Cython (C Python) and it uses faster libraries for deserializing OSM data as well as smaller optimizations like numpy arrays which allows it to process data fast. Especially if you've used OSMnx before (for very similar usecases), you know that large datasets take a very long time to load into memory, which is where PyrOSM can help you work with them. Let's get into what this library can do!

Tags: Data Engineering Data Science Geospatial Maps

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