osmapi

Python wrapper for the OSM API (requires Python >= 3.10).

NOTE: All method names of this library are in snake_case (e.g. api.node_get(123)). The deprecated CamelCase versions (e.g. api.NodeGet(123)) were removed in version 6.0, they have been deprecated since version 5.0.

Installation

Install osmapi from PyPi by using pip:

pip install osmapi

Documentation

The documentation is generated using pdoc and can be viewed online.

The build the documentation locally, you can use

make docs

This writes the HTML to docs/, which is not committed to the repository (it is git-ignored).

This project uses GitHub Pages to publish its documentation. The online documentation is built and deployed by the publish_docs.yml GitHub Action whenever a new release is published, so it always describes the latest released version. The workflow can also be started manually from the Actions tab, optionally with a tag to build the documentation from.

Examples

To test this library, please create an account on the development server of OpenStreetMap (https://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org).

Check the examples directory to find more example code.

Read from OpenStreetMap

>>> import osmapi
>>> api = osmapi.OsmApi()
>>> print(api.node_get(123))
{'changeset': 532907, 'uid': 14298,
'timestamp': '2007-09-29T09:19:17Z',
'lon': 10.790009299999999, 'visible': True,
'version': 1, 'user': 'Mede',
'lat': 59.9503044, 'tag': {}, 'id': 123}

Write to OpenStreetMap

Writing requires an authenticated session, see OAuth authentication below for how to create one (auth.session in this example):

>>> import osmapi
>>> api = osmapi.OsmApi(api="https://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org", session=auth.session)
>>> api.changeset_create({"comment": "My first test"})
>>> print(api.node_create({"lon":1, "lat":1, "tag": {}}))
{'changeset': 532907, 'lon': 1, 'version': 1, 'lat': 1, 'tag': {}, 'id': 164684}
>>> api.changeset_close()

OAuth authentication

Username/Password authentication was shut down by OpenStreetMap in July 2024 (see official OWG announcemnt for details), the username, password and passwordfile parameters of osmapi.OsmApi were removed in version 6.0. In order to use this library, you need to use OAuth 2.0.

To use OAuth 2.0, you must register an application with an OpenStreetMap account, either on the development server or on the production server. Once this registration is done, you'll get a client_id and a client_secret that you can use to authenticate users.

Example code using cli-oauth2 on the development server, replace OpenStreetMapDevAuth with OpenStreetMapAuth to use the production server:

import osmapi
from oauthcli import OpenStreetMapDevAuth

client_id = "<client_id>"
client_secret = "<client_secret>"

auth = OpenStreetMapDevAuth(
    client_id, client_secret, ['read_prefs', 'write_api']
).auth_code()

api = osmapi.OsmApi(
    api="https://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org",
    session=auth.session
)

with api.changeset({"comment": "My first test"}) as changeset_id:
    print(f"Part of Changeset {changeset_id}")
    node1 = api.node_create({"lon": 1, "lat": 1, "tag": {}})
    print(node1)

An alternative way using the requests-oauthlib library can be found in the examples.

User agent / credit for application

To credit the application that supplies changes to OSM, an appid can be provided. This is a string identifying the application. If this is omitted "osmapi" is used.

api = osmapi.OsmApi(
    api="https://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org",
    appid="MyOSM Script"
)

If then changesets are made using this osmapi instance, they get a tag created_by with the following content: MyOSM Script (osmapi/<version>)

Example changeset of Kort using osmapi

Note about imports / automated edits

Scripted imports and automated edits should only be carried out by those with experience and understanding of the way the OpenStreetMap community creates maps, and only with careful planning and consultation with the local community.

See the Import/Guidelines and Automated Edits/Code of Conduct for more information.

Development

This project uses uv to manage its virtual env and dependencies, see the installation instructions to get it.

If you want to help with the development of osmapi, you should clone this repository and install the dependencies:

make deps

This creates a virtual env in .venv with osmapi and all its dev dependencies installed (the provided setup.sh script does the same thing). All the commands below run inside that env, there is no need to activate it manually.

You can lint the source code using this command:

make lint

And if you want to reformat the files (using the black code style) simply run:

make format

To run the tests use the following command:

make test

To build the wheel and the source distribution locally:

make build

Release

To create a new release, follow these steps (please respect Semantic Versioning):

1. Adapt the version number in osmapi/__init__.py
2. Update the CHANGELOG with the version
3. Create a pull request to merge develop into main (make sure the tests pass!)
4. Create a new release/tag on GitHub (on the main branch)
5. The publication on PyPI happens via GitHub Actions on every tagged commit
6. The documentation is re-generated from the tag and published to GitHub Pages by GitHub Actions, triggered by the same release

Attribution

This project was orginally developed by Etienne Chové. This repository is a copy of the original code from SVN (http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/python_lib/OsmApi/OsmApi.py), with the goal to enable easy contribution via GitHub and release of this package via PyPI.

See also the OSM wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmapi