Juliacon 2024

Working with Open Street Map spatial data in Julia
07-11, 15:40–15:50 (Europe/Amsterdam), Method (1.5)

OpenStreetMap provides freely available data about transportation networks as well as parking spaces, schools, businesses, shops, restaurants, cafes, parking spaces, hospitals. In this talk a set of Julia packages for the manipulation of map data will be presenting, allowing processing road system information, vehicle routing as well as data scraping from maps for understanding the urban space.
Presented Julia packages include OpenStreetMapX and OSMToolset.


During the talk tools and frameworks in Julia for working with spatial data will be presented. The presented Julia packages include OpenStreetMapX.jl for parsing of OSM and PBF formatted Open Street Map data, along with OpenStreetMapXPlot for plotting maps and OSMToolset for extraction of point-of-interest data from maps. Special attention will be given to the new package, OSMToolset, a pure Julia library that facilitates efficient scraping of various metadata from maps, including amenities, schools, cafes, restaurants, and parking spaces.

The talk will emphasize practical examples and code snippets for processing spatial data, simulating vehicle routing, and building spatial walkability indexes. This presentation will also feature a Jupyter Notebook with a live demonstration of various processing patterns for spatial data.

Acknowledgments: This presentation was funded in whole by National Science Centre, Poland grant number 2021/41/B/HS4/03349.

Przemysław Szufel is an Assistant Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Adjunct Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. His main research focus is applying advanced analytics methods, and in particular, machine learning, simulation and optimization in modelling in bringing new value to business processes. He is a co-author of several tools and algorithms for optimal and cost efficient collection and analysis of large data sets in the cloud. He is a co-author of over 40 publications, including handbooks and journal papers, in the area of applying advanced analytics, machine learning and simulation methods to making optimal business decisions. He is an active member of the Julia language community - maintains 4 official Julia packages and has 2nd place answering Julia-related questions on StackOverflow. He is a co-author of book “Julia 1.0 Programming Cookbook: Over 100 numerical and distributed computing recipes for your daily data science workflow”. Przemysław is also co-managing SilverDecisions.pl project (that aims for representing and supporting business decisions), which has been elected by the European Commission to the Innovation Radar programe, grouping the best innovations financed by the EU funds.

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