OSMOX

A tool for extracting locations and features from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.

Why?

We use OSMOX to extract locations from OSM for city or national scale agent-based models. In particular, the focus tends to be on extracting buildings and their designated usages, for example homes, schools, medical facilities and places of work. However, this can also be abstracted to other objects such as transit, parks or land use.

Under the hood, OSMOX is a collection of labelling and GIS-type operations:

• filtering
• activity labelling
• simple spatial activity inference
• feature extraction (such as floor areas)
• filling in missing data

Once assembled, these form part of our wider pipeline. But as a standalone tool, OSMOX is useful for extracting insights from OSM in a reproducible manner.

^ Isle of Man distance_to_nearest_transit.