🌏 osmplaces readme:

Installation:

Use pipx install . in the osmplaces repository. That's it!

Usage and Arguments:

osmplaces is a simple a small tool to extract all names (in every language) associated with a place in the XML output of an osmosis command. The use case that osmplaces was written to consider was only the output of this command in the example. Any other commands including other OSM tags may fail. For dependencies (mainly Java) and proper usage of Osmosis, please see the Osmosis Beginner's Guide on the OSM Wiki.

Example:

For example, using the pitcairn-islands-latest.osm.pbf on GeoFabrik:

osmosis --read-pbf file="pitcarin-islands-latest.osm.pbf" \
        --tf accept-nodes place=city,town,village,hamlet \
        --tf accept-nodes "name=*" \
        --tf reject-ways \
        --tf reject-relations \
        --write-xml pitcairn-islands-places.osm

This produces an XML file like the following:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<osm version="0.6" generator="Osmosis 0.48.3">
  <bounds minlon="-133.06643" minlat="-27.66403" maxlon="-118.34477" maxlat="-21.59613" origin="0.48.3"/>
  <node id="2134592841" version="20" timestamp="2023-07-21T00:17:53Z" uid="0" user="" lat="-25.066667" lon="-130.100205">
    <tag k="capital" v="yes"/>
    <tag k="geonameid" v="4030723"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Adamstown"/>
    <tag k="name:ar" v="آدمزتاون"/>
    <tag k="name:az" v="Adamstaun"/>
    <tag k="name:bg" v="Адамстаун"/>
    ...
  </node>
</osm>

Running osmplaces -i pitcairn-islands-places.osm -o data/ produces a data/ directory where there is a .json file for the names and places for every language included in the original pitcairn-islands-latest.osm.pbf file:

> $ ls -l | awk '{print $9}'
output_nodes_ar.json
output_nodes_az.json
output_nodes_bg.json
output_nodes_da.json
output_nodes_de.json
output_nodes_en.json
output_nodes_es.json
output_nodes_et.json
(etc) ...

Inside each .json file, you are given the name, the latitude and longitude, and the ID of the OSM node reference ID:

[
    {
        "id": "2134592841",
        "lat": "-25.066667",
        "lon": "-130.100205",
        "name": "Adamstown"
    }
]