Get ee.FeatureCollection using Open Street Map

[ErikSeras]

Hello, I was limited by the ee.ImageCollection available in GEE to analyze certain areas of interest. And one way I had to fix it is with the package OSMnx. Which easily generates GeoDataFrame, and that with the geopandas_to_ee() function you can have an ee.ImageCollection .

Maybe some OSMnx functions can be added to geemap.

I share the test code for this idea that was used in Google Colab.

%%capture
# optional
! sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
! sudo apt-get update
! sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev
! sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libv8-dev libjq-dev

# packages
! pip install geopandas cartopy osmnx geemap

%matplotlib inline

# import packages
import geopandas as gpd
import osmnx as ox
import geemap

# turn response caching off
# ox.config(use_cache=False)

# turn it back on and turn on logging to your terminal window
ox.config(use_cache=True, log_console=True)

geemap.ee_initialize()

# Provincia de Lima, Lima, Perú
Map = geemap.Map()

#  GeoPandas GeoDataFrame
lima_metropolitana = ox.geocode_to_gdf("Provincia de Lima, Lima, Perú")
# GeoPandas GeoDataFrame to ee.FeatureCollection
lima_metropolitana_ee = geemap.geopandas_to_ee(lima_metropolitana, geodesic=True)

Map.addLayer(lima_metropolitana_ee, {}, 'Lima Metropolitana, Perú')
Map.centerObject(lima_metropolitana_ee, 9)
Map

# '京都市, 日本国
Map = geemap.Map()

#  GeoPandas GeoDataFrame
kioto_japon = ox.geocode_to_gdf("('京都市, 日本国')")
# GeoPandas GeoDataFrame to ee.FeatureCollection
kioto_japon_ee = geemap.geopandas_to_ee(kioto_japon, geodesic=True)

Map.addLayer(kioto_japon_ee, {}, 'Kioto, Japon')
Map.centerObject(kioto_japon_ee, 9)
Map

# Knoxville, Tennessee, United States'
Map = geemap.Map()

#  GeoPandas GeoDataFrame
knoxville_tennessee = ox.geocode_to_gdf('Knoxville, Tennessee, United States')
# GeoPandas GeoDataFrame to ee.FeatureCollection
knoxville_tennessee_ee = geemap.geopandas_to_ee(knoxville_tennessee, geodesic=True)

Map.addLayer(knoxville_tennessee_ee, {}, 'Knoxville, Tennessee')
Map.centerObject(knoxville_tennessee_ee, 11)
Map

[giswqs]

Excellent suggestion. I have added the osm_to_ee function. See example https://github.com/giswqs/geemap/blob/master/examples/notebooks/osm_to_ee.ipynb

[giswqs]

I just improved the code. Now you only need one line of code to load OSM data, e.g.,
Map.add_osm("Knoxville, Tennessee", layer_name='Knoxville, TN', to_ee=True)

See https://geemap.org/notebooks/76_osm_to_ee

[monsieurpapa]

that thows an error "Exception: geocode_to_gdf() takes 1 positional argument but 4 were given"