[OSM-dev] Osmium

[Dane Springmeyer]

Jochen,

Amazing work, really looking forward to learning more about osmium.

Have you considered making the js stuff a NodeJS addon?

Dane


On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Jochen Topf wrote:

> Osmium is a C++ framework for handling OSM data read from XML or PBF files.
> The framework itself doesn't do much by itself, it just parses the data and
> gives you callbacks for each object. Handlers can implement those callbacks and
> do interesting stuff. Osmium already comes with a few of those handlers. One of
> them, for instance, assembles multipolygon relations into real multipolygons.
> Another creates statistics for Taginfo. Particularly interesting is the
> Javascript handler, which embeds the Google V8 Javascript engine and gives you
> callbacks into Javascript. It can also write out Shapefiles and your Javascript
> code can map between OSM tags and Shapefile attributes.
> 
> All of this is Open Source and available from https://github.com/joto/osmium .
> It still has lots of rough edges but it works ok for many things. Taginfo has
> been using the Osmium framework for months now to update its statistics.
> 
> More about Osmium is at http://blog.jochentopf.com/2011-01-05-osmium.html .
> 
> Jochen
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