GeofabrikDownloader.get_continent_tables

GeofabrikDownloader.get_continent_tables(update=False, confirmation_required=True, verbose=False, raise_error=False, **kwargs)[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

  • raise_error (bool) – Whether to raise the provided exception; if raise_error=False (default), the error will be suppressed.

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']
>>> asia_table.shape
(40, 7)
>>> asia_table.head()
     subregion  ... .osm.bz2
0  Afghanistan  ...     None
1      Armenia  ...     None
2   Azerbaijan  ...     None
3   Bangladesh  ...     None
4       Bhutan  ...     None
[5 rows x 7 columns]
>>> asia_table.columns.to_list()
['subregion',
 'subregion-url',
 '.osm.pbf',
 '.osm.pbf-size',
 '.gpkg.zip',
 '.shp.zip',
 '.osm.bz2']