Minutely Extracts

Minutely Extracts (protomaps.com/extracts) is a new service for on-demand OpenStreetMap extracts in .osm.pbf format.

Features

• Data is updated once per minute from the main OpenStreetMap replication diffs. Your changes on OSM.org can be consumed almost immediately, making editing more rewarding.
• Select a bounding box or draw a polygonal region up to 100 million nodes.
• Small areas can be extracted in seconds.

Details

• I am running Minutely Extracts as a public service to help improve the mapping experience.
• Code is available at github.com/protomaps/OSMExpress : this is a command line utility and serialization format specific to planet-scale, spatially indexed OSM data.
• Extracts do not include metadata such as version numbers, Changeset IDs, timestamps or usernames.
• Extracts are reference-complete for ways and multipolygon relations.

Future work

• Please contact me at brandon@protomaps.com if you’re interested in creating extracts via API. Example: automating daily extracts to ingest updated OSM data.
• Since OSM Express is a simple serialization format, It can support other use cases such as minute-frequency editing statistics.

See also:

• Video: OSM Express: a spatial file format for the planet from SOTMUS 2019.
• Mapping Remote Roads with OpenStreetMap, RapiD, and QGIS