GeofabrikDownloader.get_continent_tables

GeofabrikDownloader.get_continent_tables(update=False, confirmation_required=True, verbose=False)[source]

Get download catalogues for each continent.

Parameters:

  • update (bool) – whether to (check on and) update the prepacked data, defaults to False

  • confirmation_required (bool) – whether asking for confirmation to proceed, defaults to True

  • verbose (bool | int) – whether to print relevant information in console, defaults to False

Returns:

download catalogues for each continent

Return type:

dict | None

Examples:

>>> from pydriosm.downloader import GeofabrikDownloader

>>> gfd = GeofabrikDownloader()

>>> # Download information of subregions for each continent
>>> continent_tables = gfd.get_continent_tables()
>>> type(continent_tables)
dict
>>> list(continent_tables.keys())
['Africa',
 'Antarctica',
 'Asia',
 'Australia and Oceania',
 'Central America',
 'Europe',
 'North America',
 'South America']

>>> # Information about the data of subregions in Asia
>>> asia_table = continent_tables['Asia']
>>> len(asia_table) >= 39
True
>>> asia_table.head()
     subregion  ...                                           .osm.bz2
0  Afghanistan  ...  https://download.geofabrik.de/asia/afghanistan...
1      Armenia  ...  https://download.geofabrik.de/asia/armenia-lat...
2   Azerbaijan  ...  https://download.geofabrik.de/asia/azerbaijan-...
3   Bangladesh  ...  https://download.geofabrik.de/asia/bangladesh-...
4       Bhutan  ...  https://download.geofabrik.de/asia/bhutan-late...
[5 rows x 6 columns]

>>> asia_table.columns.to_list()
['subregion',
 'subregion-url',
 '.osm.pbf',
 '.osm.pbf-size',
 '.shp.zip',
 '.osm.bz2']