@giscience/ohsome2x

ohsome2X

Query OSM History Data (count, length, area) about specific OSM Features or OSM User activity (user-count) for your areas of interest.

Input: Accepts GeoJSON or PostgreSQL/PostGIS as input source.

Output: Creates a GeoJSON File or new result table in your PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. The package includes a library with a single class to run.

Additionally it includes oshome2x-cli, a command-line tool with a configuration wizard to create and run a query-configuration-JSON.

This library/tool makes use of the Ohsome-API (https://api.ohsome.org) as data backend and many other great open-source libraries.

This software is developed by HeiGIT:

Install

For use as library in Node.js:

$ npm install ohsome2x

To run the command-line wizard:

$ npx ohsome2x-cli

Usage

There are two ways how you can use ohsome2x.

1. Use it as library in another Node.js project. You find the built library in the /dist folder after executing npm run build

2. Use the interactive command line interface.

   Run:

   $ npx ohsome2x-cli
   OR 
   $ node ./ohsome2x-cli/ohsome2x-cli.js
   

Example

Query the number of buildings in a bbox around Heidelberg in a yearly resolution from 2008 to 2020

Step 1. You need some input (one or many polygons): heidelberg.geojson

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {"id": "Heidelberg"},
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [
          [ [8.625984191894531, 49.38527827629032],
            [8.735504150390625, 49.38527827629032],
            [8.735504150390625, 49.433975502014675],
            [8.625984191894531, 49.433975502014675],
            [8.625984191894531, 49.38527827629032]
          ]]}}]}

Step 2. Specify your query as JSON (you can use the commandline wizard to create this): myquery.json

{
  "ohsomeQuery": {
    "queryType": "elements/count/groupBy/boundary",
    "keys": "building",
    "values": "",
    "types": "polygon",
    "time": "2008/2020/P1Y"
  },
  "source": {
    "geometryId": "id",
    "name": "heidelberg.geojson",
    "store": { "path": "heidelberg.geojson", "type": "geojson" }
  },
  "target": {
    "horizontalTimestampColumns": false,
    "createGeometry": true,
    "transformToWebmercator": false,
    "storeZeroValues": true,
    "computeValuePerArea": true,
    "name": "heidelberg_buildings_count.geojson",
    "store": { "path": "heidelberg_buildings_count.geojson", "type": "geojson" }
  }
}

Step 3. Run the Query

$ npx ohsome2x-cli run --conf myquery.json

API

Node:

const Ohsome2X = require('ohsome2x');

// you can create this config using the command-line wizard, run: npx ohsome2x-cli
const config = {
                ohsomeQuery: {...},
                source: {...},
                target: {...}
}                               

const ohsome2x = new Ohsome2X(config);

// This will return a Promise
ohsome2x.run().catch(console.log);

TypeScript:

import Ohsome2X = require('ohsome2x'); 
import {Ohsome2XConfig} from 'ohsome2x/dist/config_types_interfaces';

// you can create this config using the command-line wizard, run: npx ohsome2x-cli
const config: Ohsome2XConfig = {
                ohsomeQuery: {...},
                source: {...},
                target: {...}
}                               

const ohsome2x = new Ohsome2X(config);

// This will return a Promise
ohsome2x.run().catch(console.log);

Related

• OhsomeHeX - The OSM History Explorer: Uses this library as backend
• OhsomeAPI - WebAPI to query OSM History Data
• OSHDB - The OpenStreetMap History Database: Query OSM History Data with Java
• ohsome.org - Get Information about all these technologies and more
• heigit.org - The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology: The non-profit company behind all those useful tools.