_Reader.read_osm_var
- _Reader.read_osm_var(meth, subregion_name, osm_file_format, data_dir=None, download=False, verbose=False, **kwargs)
Read data file of various formats (other than PBF and shapefile) for a geographic (sub)region.
- Parameters:
meth (Callable) – name of a class method for getting (auxiliary) prepacked data
subregion_name (str) – name of a geographic (sub)region (case-insensitive) that is available on a free download server
osm_file_format (str) – format (file extension) of OSM data
data_dir (str or None) – directory where the data file is located/saved, defaults to
None
; whendata_dir=None
, it refers to the directory specified by the corresponding downloaderdownload (bool) – whether to download/update the PBF data file of the given subregion, if it is not available at the specified path, defaults to
True
verbose (bool or int) – whether to print relevant information in console as the function runs, defaults to
False
kwargs – [optional] parameters of the method specified by
meth
- Returns:
data of the specified file format
- Return type:
pandas.DataFrame or None
See examples for the methods
BBBikeReader.read_csv_xz()
andBBBikeReader.read_geojson_xz()
.