We are excited to announce our first release of GeoDesk for Python: Query, analyze, display and transform OpenStreetMap features using the world’s most popular scripting language — on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

• Store the entire world-wide OSM dataset locally in under 100 GB (or any extract you wish)

• Query features based on type, tags and spatial relationships (e.g. intersects, within, contains, connects_to) — 50x faster than SQL

• Measure features: length, area, distance

• Explore object graphs (nodes of ways, members of relations)

• Obtain geometric shapes and process them using Shapely (Python wrapper for GEOS)

• Convert features to various formats (just GeoJSON and WKT for now, but more are coming)

• 100% free & open-source

Try it now!

• Install the Python package: pip install geodesk

• Download the GOL Tool (builds GeoDesk databases from .osm.pbf files)

Learn more:

• Documentation

• Examples

• GitHub

We appreciate your feedback! Reach out on GitHub if you run into difficulties, and follow @geodesk@en.osm.town to receive updates on future releases and other helpful tips about OpenStreetMap and geospatial software.

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