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Exploring unmapped City Bike stations in Oslo

Vum zabop matgedeelt de(n) 30. Mee 2023 op English. Lescht Aktualiséierung de(n) 3. Juli 2023

These notes are primarily written for my future self (to prevent having to figure out things I have already figured out once).


Oslo has a great City Bike system. There are over 200 stations where one can pick up or return a bike (map), for the yearly fee of a few lunches.

I would like to see if some of these stations are missing from OpenStreetMap. I will be looking for the amenity=bicycle_rental tag. I get an OSM extract from GeoFabrik:

curl https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/norway-latest.osm.pbf -o norway-latest.osm.pbf

Using this gis.SE answer, I know I a modified version of osmconf.ini would help me query the amenity class. I create bysykkel_osm.ini:

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Plaz: Akershus festning, Sentrum, Oslo, 0015, Norway