osm-transit-lines

Fetch public transit lines from OpenStreetMap for a given area (bounding box).

Installation

npm install osm-transit-lines

Usage

const osmTransitLines = require('osm-transit-lines')

// bounding box for Berlin (🇪🇺)
const boundingBox = {
	south: 52.3418234221,
	west: 13.0882097323,
	north: 52.6697240587,
	east: 13.7606105539
}

const options = {
	logging: false, // logs current request count to stderr when enabled
	wikidata: false // fetch claims for lines (not routes) that have a wikidata attribute into line.wikidataClaims
}

osmTransitLines(bbox, { wikidata: true }) // returns a Promise
	.then(console.log)
	.catch(console.error)

Note that - depending on your bounding box - the request might take quite long, even some minutes. You should save/cache the result of this query for some time and refresh the data after some interval you deep appropriate (depending on how fast people might change line information on OSM 😜). Also, the request body is handled in-memory at the time, so the process might get killed if you query a giant bounding box and don't have enough memory.

The method returns a Promise that will resolve in a list of lines (that match route_master relations in OSM) which in turn contain a list of routes (corresponding to normal route relations in OSM) which in turn contain stopLocations, a list of coordinates representing the route's stops. All attributes except for id, type, stopLocations and routes are copied from OSM.

Note that this module additionally alters the data to enhance quality in the following ways:

• Creates an additional attribute transitMode which contains the route_master or route mode from OpenStreetMap (they represent the same data type but have different attribute names depending on if they're part of a route or a route_master)
• Creates additional lines from route relations that don't have a route_master parent relation and inserts the same route as the only entry in that line's routes attribute.
• Harmonizes the some attributes (network, wikidata, colour, operator, ref, transitMode) between lines and routes in the following ways:
  • Do all routes/line contain the same value or null for this attribute? -> Copy the value to all routes/line (effectively adding information for those that had null before)
  • Do all routes contain the same value or null, but the line has a different value? -> Copy the value to all routes (effectively adding information for those that had null before) and overwrite the current value in the line.

Example output for Berlin:

{
	"colour": "#055A99",
	"id": 58424,
	"interval": "5",
	"name": "U-Bahnlinie U8",
	"network": "Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg",
	"network:metro": "u-bahn",
	"operator": "Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe",
	"public_transport:version": "2",
	"ref": "U8",
	"route_master": "subway",
	"routes": [
		{
			"colour": "#055A99",
			"from": "S+U Hermannstraße",
			"id": 2679013,
			"interval": "5",
			"name": "U-Bahnlinie U8: S+U Hermannstraße => S+U Wittenau",
			"network": "Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg",
			"network:metro": "u-bahn",
			"operator": "Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe",
			"public_transport:version": "2",
			"ref": "U8",
			"route": "subway",
			"stopLocations": [
				{
					"id": 4655299661,
					"latitude": 52.467777,
					"longitude": 13.4312136,
					"type": "location"
				},
				{
					"id": 29494306,
					"latitude": 52.4729946,
					"longitude": 13.4284168,
					"type": "location"
				}
				// …
			],
			"to": "S+U Wittenau",
			"transitMode": "subway",
			"type": "route"
		},
		{
			"colour": "#055A99",
			"from": "S+U Wittenau",
			"id": 2679014,
			"interval": "5",
			"name": "U-Bahnlinie U8: S+U Wittenau => S+U Hermannstraße",
			"network": "Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg",
			"network:metro": "u-bahn",
			"operator": "Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe",
			"public_transport:version": "2",
			"ref": "U8",
			"route": "subway",
			"stopLocations": [
				{
					"id": 4655218849,
					"latitude": 52.5879234,
					"longitude": 13.3258231,
					"type": "location"
				},
				{
					"id": 4655264250,
					"latitude": 52.5784067,
					"longitude": 13.3334638,
					"type": "location"
				}
				// …
			],
			"to": "S+U Hermannstraße",
			"transitMode": "subway",
			"type": "route",
			"wikidata": "Q99729"
		}
	],
	"transitMode": "subway",
	"type": "line",
	"wikidata": "Q99729",
	"wikidataClaims": {
		"P154": ["Berlin U8.svg"],
		"P373": ["U-Bahnlinie U8 (Berlin)"],
		"P465": ["00609E"] // line color
		// …
	},
	"wikipedia": "de:U-Bahn-Linie 8 (Berlin)"
}

Contributing

If you found a bug or want to propose a feature, feel free to visit the issues page.