OSM Viz



Some buses in San Francisco.

All aboard!

An OpenStreetMap Visualization Toolkit for Python

OSMViz is a small set of Python tools for retrieving and using OpenStreetMap (OSM) images (actually, Mapnik images served by Slippy Map). Its original purpose was to draw a bunch of things moving around on the map, which has been somewhat generalized and expanded.

With OSMViz you can:

OSMViz is released under the MIT license. Currently it supports images using PIL and/or Pygame.

A note about OpenStreetMap maps

If you choose to pull tiles from the openstreetmap.org server, then there are some things you should know:

Using OSM Viz

The code below will show a train running across the USA. Choo choo!

from osmviz.animation import TrackingViz, Simulation

# Define begin/end points, duration, and icon for our train

start_lat,start_lon = (45.77,-68.65) # Northeast
end_lat,end_lon = (30.05,-118.25) # Southwest
begin_time, end_time = 0, 60 # In 60 seconds!

image_f = "images/train.png" 

# Define bounds for the train and zoom level, how much map do we show?

bound_ne_lat,bound_ne_lon = (46,-68.5)
bound_sw_lat,bound_sw_lon = (30,-119)
zoom = 6 # OSM zoom level

# Define an interpolater to create animation points

def locAtTime(t):
    if t < 0: return start_lat,start_lon
    if t > 60: return end_lat,end_lon
    frac = t/60.0
    interp_lat = start_lat + frac * (end_lat-start_lat)
    interp_lon = start_lon + frac * (end_lon-start_lon)
    return interp_lat,interp_lon


# Create a TrackingViz

viz = TrackingViz("Continental Espresso", image_f, locAtTime,
                   (begin_time,end_time), 
                   (bound_sw_lat,bound_ne_lat,bound_sw_lon,bound_ne_lon), 
                  1) # Drawing order

# Add our TrackingViz to a Simulation and then run the simulation

sim = Simulation([viz,],[],0) # ([actor vizs], [scene vizs], initial time)
sim.run(speed=1,refresh_rate=0.1,osmzoom=zoom)

While the animation is running, you can control it as follows:

To run it yourself you need to have an existing "images/train.png" as well as an empty "maptiles/" directory. These already exist in the "test" directory in the source download; in fact one of the included tests is to show the same train.

Requirements

Links

OpenStreetMap
Pygame
PIL