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title	tags	authors	affiliations	date	bibliography	nocite
osmdata	openstreetmap spatial R Simple Features	name affiliation Mark Padgham 1 name affiliation Robin Lovelace 3 name affiliation Maëlle Salmon 2 name affiliation Bob Rudis 4	name index Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria 1 name index ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain. 2 name index Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds, U.K. 3 name index Rapid7 4	8 March 2017	vignettes/osmdata-refs.bib	@*

Summary

osmdata imports OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into R as either Simple Features or R Spatial objects, respectively able to be processed with the R packages sf and sp. OSM data are extracted from the Overpass API and processed with very fast C++ routines for return to R. The package enables simple Overpass queries to be constructed without the user necessarily understanding the syntax of the Overpass query language, while retaining the ability to handle arbitrarily complex queries. Functions are also provided to enable recursive searching between different kinds of OSM data (for example, to find all lines which intersect a given point). The package is faster than current alternatives for importing OSM data into R and is the only one compatible with sf.

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