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Nepal OSM Extract

The file all_places.info (16 MB) contains the information about all labeled nodes as available in the January 2020 OSM extract of the region covered by Nepal. The OSM-XML file which was used to extract it is available at the Geofabrik page for Nepal. extract.py was used to extract all the information.

Format

First, node dictionaries are made from node information. Attributes like latitude, longitude, node_id (useful to identify places on OSM maps), node_info are available.

node_info inside each node dictionary gives another dictionary that provides more details about the node (place). Some attributes under node_info are name, amenity, etc. An example of a node dictionary:

{
	"latitude": "28.1614946", 
	"node_info": {
		"source:alt_name_1": "GNS", 
		"alt_name_1": "Syābru Bensi", 
		"place": "town", 
		"name": "Syabru Bensi", 
		"alt_name": "Shyaphru Besi;Syrapru Besi"
	}, 
	"node_id": "267564991", 
	"longitude": "85.3367869"
}

These dictionaries are then json-dumped, one per line, in the present state as seen in the file.

USAGE: The file can be loaded and split at newlines and each line can be json-loaded using json.loads() to get back the dictionaries.

CSV FORMAT: For more flexible usage, there is also the CSV format all_places_csv.info. intocsv.py has code to read and write to CSV using Python's inbuilt csv. Usage in pandas should not very different.

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