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pyosmium
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This library provides Python bindings for the `Libosmium`_ C++
library, a library for working with OpenStreetMap data in a fast and flexible
manner.

.. _Libosmium: https://github.com/osmcode/libosmium

Installation
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pyosmium can be installed with pip:

    pip install osmium

The Pypi source package already comes bundled with a matching version of
libosmium, protozero and pybind11. Pyosmium additionally depends on
expat, libz and libbz2. You need to install
development packages for these libraries. On Debian/Ubuntu do::

    sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libexpat1-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev


Python >= 3.8 is supported. Pypy is known not to work.

Documentation
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The documentation for the latest release is available at
`osmcode.org`_.

If you find bugs or have feature requests, please report those in the
`Github issue tracker`_. For general questions about using pyosmium you
can contanct the `OSM forum`_.

.. _osmcode.org: http://docs.osmcode.org/pyosmium/latest
.. _Github issue tracker: https://github.com/osmcode/pyosmium/issues/
.. _OSM forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/

Examples
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The package contains an `example` directory with small examples on how to use
the library. They are mostly ports of the examples in Libosmium and
osmium-contrib.

Also check out the `Cookbook section`_ in the documentation.

.. _Cookbook section: https://docs.osmcode.org/pyosmium/latest/cookbooks/

Fineprint
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Pyosmium is available under the BSD 2-Clause License. See LICENSE.TXT.

The source code can be found on `GitHub`_.

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/osmcode/pyosmium
