OpenStreetMap
OpenPlanetData provides daily snapshots of OpenStreetMap data in multiple formats, optimized for different use cases:
- PBF - Standard OpenStreetMap binary format.
- GOL - PBF variant indexed with GeoDesk for rapid spatial queries.
- GOB - Compressed variant of GeoDesk GOL file.
- GeoParquet - Column-oriented format optimized for spatial analytics.
Available OpenStreetMap Datasets
Section titled “Available OpenStreetMap Datasets”- Planet — the complete OpenStreetMap planet, in a single file per format.
Use Cases
Section titled “Use Cases”- Routing — build road graphs from the PBF planet.
- Geocoding — index addresses and places worldwide.
- Analytics — query the GeoParquet planet directly with DuckDB, Spark, or BigQuery.
- Rendering — generate map tiles from a single planet file.