Taginfo

This project exists to access magnificent taginfo maintained by Jochen Topf.

It is an unofficial Python wrapper over available API.

It is a Python wrapper for a tiny part of taginfo API that I use in my projects.

Note that the taginfo API is intended for the use of the OpenStreetMap community. Do not use it for other purposes. (source) As taginfo is open source you can deploy own service of needed.

Installation

Like any other python package: pip install taginfo

Examples

How often given key is used?

import taginfo

key = "name:ab"
print(key, "is used", taginfo.query.count_appearances_of_key(key), "times")

What about tags?

import taginfo

key = "horse"
value = "noo"
print(key, "=", value, "is used", taginfo.query.count_appearances_of_tag(key, value), "times")
value = "no"
print(key, "=", value, "is used", taginfo.query.count_appearances_of_tag(key, value), "times")

Listing popular values for key

import taginfo

key = "bin"
print("all values of specific key:")
for value in taginfo.query.values_of_key(key):
    print(key, "=", value)
print()
key = "surface"
print("all popular values of specific key:")
for entry in taginfo.query.values_of_key_with_data(key):
    if(entry['count'] > 1000):
        print(key, "=", entry['value'], str(int(entry['count']/1000)) + "k")

Listing popular tags unsupported by iD

See openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema#1641 for output

See test_tags_used_in_project in tests.py for code used to generate it.

Listing popular keys not supported by iD

# no issue created for it at https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues
# right now it provides no useful info (more entries need to be skipped or verified)
project = "id_editor"
supported = []
threshold = 500_000
expected_support = []
for entry in taginfo.query.tagging_used_by_project(project):
    if entry["key"] not in supported:
        supported.append(entry["key"]) # will not catch cases where only specific value is supported
page = 1
finished = False
while not finished:
    for entry in taginfo.query.get_page_of_all_keys_with_wiki_page(page):
        if(entry['count_all'] < threshold):
            finished = True
            break
        key = entry["key"]
        banned_key_prefix_indicating_import_garbage = ["tiger:", "nhd:", "NHD:", "lacounty:", "ref:", "nysgissam:", "nycdoitt:", "yh:", "building:ruian:", "gnis:", "osak:", "maaamet:", "chicago:", "LINZ:"]
        matches_blacklisted = False
        for prefix in banned_key_prefix_indicating_import_garbage:
            if key.find(prefix) == 0:
                matches_blacklisted = True
                break
        if matches_blacklisted:
            continue
        if key in [
            "created_by", # deprecated/discardable, not listed in iD taginfo project
            "is_in", # deprecated and unwanted
            "name_1", # weird tagging promoted by old iD versions
            "addr:TW:dataset", # unwanted import tag
        ]:
            continue
        if key not in supported:
            formatted_count = str(int(entry["count_all"]/1000))+"k"
            print(key, formatted_count)
            expected_support.append({"key": key, "count": formatted_count})
    page += 1

for entry in expected_support:
    link = "https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/" + entry["key"]
    text = "`" + entry["key"] + "` " + entry["count"]
    linked_markdown_text = "[" + text + "](" + link + ")"
    print(linked_markdown_text)

Historic data

import taginfo

print("Intended to show useful info (and maybe motivate you to talk to this mappers and ask whether they meant surface=concrete:")
print(taginfo.query.count_new_appearances_of_tag_historic_data("surface", "cement", 60), "net change for surface=cement within last 60 days (this tag appears to be duplicating surface=concrete)")
print()
print("intended to show that such short-term queries are likely to be a problem, as taginfo may have delay in updating and last few days may be often unavailable:")
print(taginfo.query.count_new_appearances_of_key_historic_data("building", 1), "new building=* objects since yesterday")

Development

Contributions are welcome to cover larger part of taginfo API.

Run tests

python3 -m unittest