osm-adiff-parser

Parses OSM augmented diff XML and returns a plain JS object representing the diff.

Installation

npm install @osmcha/osm-adiff-parser

Usage

import parser from 'osm-adiff-parser';
let adiff = await parser(augmentedDiffXmlString);

Example input & output

Input (an augmented diff of a simple changeset which added a couple of tags to an existing node)

<osm version="0.6" generator="Overpass API not used, but achavi detects it at the start of string; OSMExpress/python/examples/augmented_diff.py">
  <note>The data included in this document is from www.openstreetmap.org. The data is made available under ODbL.</note>
  <action type="modify">
    <old>
      <node id="2523603738" version="2" user="TheRomanP" uid="3844185" timestamp="2024-06-05T13:51:12Z" changeset="152289357" lon="-121.2881568" lat="47.6647943">
        <tag k="highway" v="trailhead" />
      </node>
    </old>
    <new>
      <node id="2523603738" version="3" timestamp="2024-08-20T21:36:16Z" uid="8794039" user="jake-low" changeset="155530622" lat="47.6647943" lon="-121.2881568">
        <tag k="highway" v="trailhead" />
        <tag k="name" v="Necklace Valley Trailhead" />
        <tag k="operator" v="US Forest Service" />
        <tag k="website" v="https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mbs/recarea/?recid=80228" />
      </node>
    </new>
  </action>
</osm>

Output

{
  "actions": [
    {
      "type": "modify",
      "old": {
        "type": "node",
        "id": 2523603738,
        "version": 2,
        "user": "TheRomanP",
        "uid": 3844185,
        "timestamp": "2024-06-05T13:51:12Z",
        "changeset": 152289357,
        "lon": -121.2881568,
        "lat": 47.6647943,
        "tags": {
          "highway": "trailhead"
        }
      },
      "new": {
        "type": "node",
        "id": 2523603738,
        "version": 3,
        "timestamp": "2024-08-20T21:36:16Z",
        "uid": 8794039,
        "user": "jake-low",
        "changeset": 155530622,
        "lat": 47.6647943,
        "lon": -121.2881568,
        "tags": {
          "highway": "trailhead",
          "name": "Necklace Valley Trailhead",
          "operator": "US Forest Service",
          "website": "https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mbs/recarea/?recid=80228"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "note": "The data included in this document is from www.openstreetmap.org. The data is made available under ODbL."
}

Command line interface

This package also provides a CLI tool which reads augmented diff XML from stdin and writes the parsed representation to stdout as JSON.

$ osm-adiff-parser --help
osm-adiff-parser v3.1.0
Convert OSM augmented diff XML to a JSON representation

Usage:
  osm-adiff-parser [options] < input.xml > output.json

Options:
  -h, --help     Show this help message
  -v, --version  Show version number

History

This package is a fork of mapbox/osm-adiff-parser which is no longer maintained. Version 2.0.0 of @osmcha/osm-adiff-parser contains breaking API changes compared to version 1.1.0 of osm-adiff-parser. See the CHANGELOG for more details.