hyperdb-osm

Peer-to-peer OpenStreetMap database over hyperdb.

Current Status

Experimental

Expect plenty of breaking changes -- semver will be respected. This isn't currently ready to be relied upon by other modules!

If you're interested in this project, leave an issue and share a bit about what you're building!

Usage

var hyperosm = require('hyperdb-osm')
var hyperdb = require('hyperdb')
var ram = require('random-access-memory')
var memdb = require('memdb')
var Geo = require('grid-point-store')
 
var db = hyperdb(ram, { valueEncoding: 'json' }))
var indexes = memdb()
var geo = Geo(memdb())
var osm = hyperosm({
  db: db,
  index: indexes,
  pointstore: geo
})
 
var node = {
  type: 'node',
  lat: '-12.7',
  lon: '1.3',
  tags: { feature: 'water fountain' },
  changeset: 'abcdef'
}
 
osm.create(node, function (err, node) {
  console.log('created node with id', node.id)
  var bbox = [[-13, -11], [1, 2]]
  osm.query(bbox, function (err, elms) {
    console.log(elms)
  })
})

outputs

created node with id 78d06921416fe95b
[ { type: 'node',
    lat: '-12.7',
    lon: '1.3',
    tags: { feature: 'water fountain' },
    changeset: 'abcdef',
    timestamp: '2017-12-16T00:15:55.238Z',
    id: '78d06921416fe95b',
    version: 'eAXxidJuq9PoqiDsyrLKfR4jME9hgYnGSozS7BKXUqbDH' } ]

API

var hyperosm = require('hyperdb-osm')

var db = hyperosm(opts)

Expected opts include:

• db: a hyperdb instance
• index: a levelup instance
• pointstore: a grid-point-store instance

osm.create(element, cb)

Create the new OSM element element and add it to the database. The resulting element, populated with the id and version fields, is returned by the callback cb.

osm.get(id, cb)

Fetch all of the newest OSM elements with the ID id. In the case that multiple peers modified an element prior to sync'ing with each other, there may be multiple latest elements ("heads") for the ID.

osm.put(id, element, cb)

Update an existing element with ID id to be the OSM element element. The new element should have all fields that the OSM element would have. The type of the element cannot be changed.

If the value of ID currently returns two or more elements, this new value will replace them all.

cb is called with the new element, including id and version properties.

osm.del(id, value, cb)

Marks the element id as deleted. A deleted document can be get and getByVersion'd like a normal document, and will always have the { deleted: true } field set.

Deleted ways, nodes, and relations are all still returned by the query API. The nodes of a deleted are not included in the results.

osm.batch(ops, cb)

Create and update many elements atomically. ops is an array of objects describing the elements to be added or updated.

{
  type: 'put|del',
  id: 'id',
  value: { /* element */ }
}

If no id field is set, the element is created, otherwise it is updated with the element value.

An operation type of 'put' inserts a new element or modifies an existing one, while a type of'del' will mark the element as deleted.

Currently, doing a batch insert skips many validation checks in order to be as fast as possible.

TODO: accept opts.validate or opts.strict

var rs = osm.query(bbox[, cb])

Retrieves all nodes, ways, and relations touching the bounding box bbox.

bbox is expected to be of the format [[minLat, maxLat], [minLon, maxLon]]. Latitude runs between (-85, 85), and longitude between (-180, 180).

A callback parameter cb is optional. If given, it will be called as cb(err, elements). If not provided or set to null, a Readable stream will be returned that can be read from as elements are emitted. The distinction between the two is that the callback will buffer all results before they are returned, but the stream will emit results as they arrive, resulting in much less buffering. This can make a large impact on memory use for queries on large datasets.

The following algorithm is used to determine what OSM elements are returned:

1. All nodes that are inside a given bounding box and any relations that reference them.
2. All ways that reference at least one node that is inside a given bounding box, any relations that reference them (the ways), and any nodes outside the bounding box that the ways may reference.
3. All relations that reference one of the nodes, ways or relations included due to the above rules. (This does not apply recursively; meaning that elements referenced by a relation are not returned by virtue of being in that relation.)

var rs = osm.getChanges(id[, cb])

Fetch a list of all OSM elements belonging to the changeset id.

A callback parameter cb is optional. If given, it will be called as cb(err, results). If not provided or set to null, a Readable stream will be returned that can be read from as results are ready.

Objects of the following form are returned:

{
  id: '...',
  version: '...'
}

var rs = osm.getReferrers(id[, cb])

Fetch a list of all OSM ways and relations that refer to the element with ID id. For a node, this can be ways or relations. For a way or relation, this can only be relations.

A callback parameter cb is optional. If given, it will be called as cb(err, results). If not provided or set to null, a Readable stream will be returned that can be read from as results are ready.

Objects of the following form are returned:

{
  id: '...',
  version: '...'
}

osm.getPreviousHeads(version, cb)

Get all immediately previous versions of the element at version.

In the simple case of one writer writing an element and then updating it,

A_1  <--  A_2

getPreviousHeads(A_2) would return [A_2].

In a more complex case of two writers that both forked C_1 and then one wrote a new head to merge them,

        /-- C_2 <--\
C_1 <---            --- C4
        \-- C_3 <--/

getPreviousHeads(C_4) would return [C_2, C_3].

Architecture

TODO: talk about forking data & forking architecture

Combining with other hyperdb modules

If you had other modules that store data in a hyperdb, say hyperdb-media and hyperdb-maptiles, you could combine these and this module together with a very minimal amount of glue to create a simpler database interface for consumers:

var hyperdb = Hyperdb(...)
var osm = hyperosm(...)
var media = hypermedia(...)
var maptiles = hypertiles(...)
 
var db = {
  osm: osm,
  users: users,
  media: media,
  tiles: maptiles,
  replicate: hyperdb.replicate.bind(hyperdb)
}

Install

With npm installed, run

$ npm install hyperdb-osm

License

ISC