Introducing overpass

Bob Rudis and Robin Lovelace

2016-10-06

This vignette provides an overview of the overpass package, an R interface to the overpass OpenStreetMap API. Documentation on the API can be found at wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API For a wider overview of the massive crowdsouced GIS project underlying OSM data, see (Neis and Zipf 2012).

Additional citations (for final vignette and paper):

  • Olbricht (2015) - is this open access?
  • Mashhadi, Quattrone, and Capra (2015) - nice analysis of impacts and potential uses of osm data

References

Mashhadi, Afra, Giovanni Quattrone, and Licia Capra. 2015. “The Impact of Society on Volunteered Geographic Information: The Case of Openstreetmap.” In OpenStreetMap in Giscience, 125–41. Springer.

Neis, Pascal, and Alexander Zipf. 2012. “Analyzing the Contributor Activity of a Volunteered Geographic Information Project—The Case of Openstreetmap.” ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 1 (2). Molecular Diversity Preservation International: 146–65.

Olbricht, Roland M. 2015. “Data Retrieval for Small Spatial Regions in Openstreetmap.” In OpenStreetMap in Giscience, 101–22. Springer.