[OSM-dev] OSM QA Tiles for data analysis

[Edward Betts]

Matt Greene <matt at mapbox.com> wrote:
> As announced yesterday on Mapbox's blog (
> https://www.mapbox.com/blog/osm-qa-tiles/), a full-spectrum vector tileset
> of OpenStreetMap is now publicly available for download at
> http://osmlab.github.io/osm-qa-tiles/.

Thanks Matt, this looks useful. I downloaded the 38 GB file, now I'm wondering
how to use it. Is there an easy way to use the file from Python, say for
example if I want to search for every object tagged as tourism=zoo? Do I need
to uncompress the file before using it?

I see some Python modules listed here:

https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec/wiki/Implementations#11-compliant

Which is the best to use? I'm not interested in rendering tiles, I'm just
interested in the data.

-- 
Edward.