osm_spreadsheet
osm_spreadsheet exports OpenStreetMap data to spreadsheet (.tsv) format allowing to edit it in spreadsheet software (Excel, Openoffice) or table data processing software (Kettle, Google Refine).
Modifications from edited spreadsheet then can be imported back to OpenStreetMap using difference files (only JOSM difference format is supported at this moment).
What data will be in spreadsheet?
Currently osm_spreadsheet supports only tags of OSM objects (points, ways and relations). So you can only update tags with this program. It is useful for:
- Adding attributes (i.e. population of places) from table data
- Adding internationalized names of objects in multiple languages
- Normalization of typos and different variants of name
- Just looking at multiple objects, how consistent they are tagged
- Exporting of OpenStreetMap data to use in other projects
It creates two special columns: osm_id and osm_type to link spreadsheet rows
to OSM entities. Other columns are tag keys, and cells store tag values. You can
specify which tag keys to export, for example you can leave only highway and
name. By default it will create columns for all tag keys found in input file.
Installation
Currently there is no setup.py, so to install, just copy osm_spreadsheet.py
somewhere.
It requires python 2.7, maybe will work in previous versions with argparse installed.
Usage
There are two commands: import and export.
./osm_spreadsheet.py export
Exports .osm xml file to .tsv spreadsheet and
./osm_spreadsheet.py import
Imports spreadsheet modifications using original .osm file used in export step, creates difference file in JOSM format, that can be uploaded to OSM with JOSM.
See --help for more info.