Sample OSM Athena queries

0_register_planet.sql

--
-- This will register the "planet" table within your AWS account
--
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE planet (
  id BIGINT,
  type STRING,
  tags MAP<STRING,STRING>,
  lat DECIMAL(9,7),
  lon DECIMAL(10,7),
  nds ARRAY<STRUCT<ref: BIGINT>>,
  members ARRAY<STRUCT<type: STRING, ref: BIGINT, role: STRING>>,
  changeset BIGINT,
  timestamp TIMESTAMP,
  uid BIGINT,
  user STRING,
  version BIGINT
)
STORED AS ORCFILE
LOCATION 's3://osm-pds/planet/';

1_register_planet_history.sql

--
-- This will register the "planet_history" table within your AWS account
--
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE planet_history (
    id BIGINT,
    type STRING,
    tags MAP<STRING,STRING>,
    lat DECIMAL(9,7),
    lon DECIMAL(10,7),
    nds ARRAY<STRUCT<ref: BIGINT>>,
    members ARRAY<STRUCT<type: STRING, ref: BIGINT, role: STRING>>,
    changeset BIGINT,
    timestamp TIMESTAMP,
    uid BIGINT,
    user STRING,
    version BIGINT,
    visible BOOLEAN
)
STORED AS ORCFILE
LOCATION 's3://osm-pds/planet-history/'

2_register_changesets.sql

--
-- This will register the "changesets" table within your AWS account
--
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE changesets (
    id BIGINT,
    tags MAP<STRING,STRING>,
    created_at TIMESTAMP,
    open BOOLEAN,
    closed_at TIMESTAMP,
    comments_count BIGINT,
    min_lat DECIMAL(9,7),
    max_lat DECIMAL(9,7),
    min_lon DECIMAL(10,7),
    max_lon DECIMAL(10,7),
    num_changes BIGINT,
    uid BIGINT,
    user STRING
)
STORED AS ORCFILE
LOCATION 's3://osm-pds/changesets/';

3_health_center_points_in_west_africa.sql

--
-- Find health center POIs in West Africa
--
SELECT * from planet
WHERE type = 'node'
  AND tags['amenity'] IN ('hospital', 'clinic', 'doctors')
  AND lon BETWEEN -15.0863 AND -7.3651
  AND lat BETWEEN 4.3531 AND 12.6762;

4_health_centers_in_west_africa.sql

--
-- Find health center POIs and buildings in West Africa
--
-- select out nodes and relevant columns
WITH nodes AS (
  SELECT
    type,
    id,
    tags,
    lat,
    lon
  FROM planet
  WHERE type = 'node'
),
-- select out ways and relevant columns
ways AS (
  SELECT
    type,
    id,
    tags,
    nds
  FROM planet
  WHERE type = 'way'
    AND tags['amenity'] IN ('hospital', 'clinic', 'doctors')
),
-- filter nodes to only contain those present within a bounding box
nodes_in_bbox AS (
  SELECT *
  FROM nodes
  WHERE lon BETWEEN -15.0863 AND -7.3651
    AND lat BETWEEN 4.3531 AND 12.6762
)
-- find ways intersecting the bounding box
SELECT
  ways.type,
  ways.id,
  ways.tags,
  AVG(nodes.lat) lat,
  AVG(nodes.lon) lon
FROM ways
CROSS JOIN UNNEST(nds) AS t (nd)
JOIN nodes_in_bbox nodes ON nodes.id = nd.ref
GROUP BY (ways.type, ways.id, ways.tags)
UNION ALL
SELECT
  type,
  id,
  tags,
  lat,
  lon
FROM nodes_in_bbox
WHERE tags['amenity'] IN ('hospital', 'clinic', 'doctors');

5_gmu_mapathon_edits.sql

--
-- Find changesets made during GMU mapathons
--
SELECT *
FROM changesets
WHERE regexp_like(tags['comment'], '(?i)#gmu');

6_missingmaps_user_count.sql

--
-- Count unique users who have used the #missingmaps tag in edits
--
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT uid)
FROM changesets
WHERE regexp_like(tags['comment'], '(?i)#missingmaps');

7_gmu_mapathon_users.sql

--
-- Find prolific GMU mappers
--
SELECT user, count(*) AS edits
FROM changesets
WHERE regexp_like(tags['comment'], '(?i)#gmu')
GROUP BY user
ORDER BY count(*) DESC;

8_gmu_mapathon_features.sql

--
-- Find features edited during GMU mapathons
--
SELECT planet.*, changesets.tags
FROM planet
JOIN changesets ON planet.changeset = changesets.id
WHERE regexp_like(changesets.tags['comment'], '(?i)#gmu');

9_dhaka_building_condition.sql

--
-- Group Dhaka buildings by condition
--
-- select out nodes and relevant columns
WITH nodes AS (
  SELECT
    id,
    tags,
    lat,
    lon
  FROM planet
  WHERE type = 'node'
),
-- select out ways and relevant columns
ways AS (
  SELECT
    id,
    tags,
    nds
  FROM planet
  WHERE type = 'way'
),
-- filter nodes to only contain those present within a bounding box
nodes_in_bbox AS (
  SELECT *
  FROM nodes
  WHERE lon BETWEEN 90.3907 AND 90.4235
    AND lat BETWEEN 23.6948 AND 23.7248
),
-- fetch and expand referenced ways
referenced_ways AS (
  SELECT
    ways.*,
    t.*
  FROM ways
  CROSS JOIN UNNEST(nds) WITH ORDINALITY AS t (nd, idx)
  JOIN nodes_in_bbox nodes ON nodes.id = nd.ref
),
-- fetch *all* referenced nodes (even those outside the queried bounding box)
exploded_ways AS (
  SELECT
    ways.id,
    ways.tags,
    idx,
    nd.ref,
    nodes.id node_id,
    ARRAY[nodes.lat, nodes.lon] coordinates
  FROM referenced_ways ways
  JOIN nodes ON nodes.id = nd.ref
  ORDER BY ways.id, idx
)
-- query ways matching the bounding box
SELECT
  count(*),
  tags['building:condition']
FROM exploded_ways
GROUP BY tags['building:condition']
ORDER BY count(*) DESC;

Sample sets/data:
https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
or
http://download.geofabrik.de/

Hi thank you for the examples. They are very helpful.

I am wondering if there is any way to query for buildings by geo-area like city names or county names or state names

Hi there, I have used osmnx library in python to find the nearest edge (roadways) to a particular gps point. Now I'm trying to send the query through Athena to get the same results from OpenStreetMap. Do you know how can I do it here? Any documentation or other source is highly appreciated.
Thanks