We’re excited to announce the latest edition of our GeoDesk OpenStreetMap Toolkit, this time for C++.
The GeoDesk C++ library is lightweight (250 KB compiled), without any link-time dependencies. It supports Windows, Linux and MacOS. Its query engine runs entirely in-process, without any need for a database server or other external services. And, of course, it’s free and open-source.
Just like its Java and Python cousins, GeoDesk for C++ supports a wide range of queries (within(), around(), crossing(), nodes of a way, members of a relation) and standard geospatial operations, such as computing areas and distances. For more advanced capabilities, you can also integrate it with the popular GEOS library.
This is an early access release – some of the documented capabilities are not yet fully implemented (Please see the release notes for details). As always, we’re grateful for bug reports and other suggestions for improvement.