fences-builder

fences-builder

This module extracts administrative boundary polygons from openstreetmap data files. It's currently using node-osmium to do most of the work, and simply filtering the generated polygons using tags.

Note: you will need node and npm installed first.

The easiest way to install node.js is with nave.sh by executing [sudo] ./nave.sh usemain stable

Installation

$ npm install fences-builder

Usage

standalone utility

This utility needs the following parameters.

Parameter	Description
inputFile	Path to input file. Must be a valid OSM data file (pbf, osm, etc.)
outputDir	Path to an existing directory that will contain output files for each admin_level.

$ fences-builder --inputFile=<file> --outputDir=<dir>

dependency module

var FencesBuilder = require('fences-builder');

var builder = new FencesBuilder(inputFile, outputDir);

builder.start(function (err, results) {
  if (err) {
    console.error(colors.red('[Error]:'), err.message);
  }
  else {
    console.log(colors.blue('[Results]:'), results);
  }
});

Known Issues

• Osmium parser has been separated into a child process because it doesn't respect node's event loop.
• Cannot run with full planet file as input. Process runs out of memory. It is recommended that the planet data is pre-filtered using osmfilter or some other similar utility.

Running Tests

$ npm test

Note: the tests don't attempt to verify osmium functionality, we trust that things are working as expected there.

Continuous Integration