Download OSM data from a specified lon/lat bounding box

Downloads OSM data from an Overpass API server and reads it into an osmar object.

get_osm_bbox(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, server = "https://overpass-api.de")

get_osm_file(file)

Arguments

xmin	Numeric. Minimum longitude
xmax	Numeric. Maximum longitude
ymin	Numeric. Minimum latitude
ymax	Numeric. Maximum latitude
server	Character. Hostname of an Overpass API server Defaults to https://overpass-api.de although you may specify a different hostname.
file	Filepath for an OSM XML file

Value

An osmar object.

Functions

• get_osm_file: Read in OSM data from an XML file. get_osm_bbox() calls this function once it downloads the raw XML file.

See also

osmsource_api() which implements the same function but has stricter controls on the size that can be downloaded.