index.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

/*
 * Parsing BIG compressed data with Node.js and SAX
 * Probably some bugs, but worked fine for OpenStreetMap Great Britain bz2
 * Greg Miell 2012
 */

// Simple string trim prototype extension
String.prototype.trim = function() {
    return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
};

var sax = require('sax')
  , strict = true
  , gzbz2 = require('gzbz2/bunzipstream')
      // Had to manually build bzbz2 this from another repo for Node 0.6.x
      // https://github.com/tungj/node-gzbz2
  , fs = require('fs');

// Create decompression stream
var dataStream = gzbz2.wrap('./great_britain.osm.bz2', {lowercasetags: true})

// Create SAX parser stream
var saxStream = sax.createStream(strict, {lowercasetags: true});

// Create output stream
var outStream = fs.createWriteStream('./addresses.dump');

// Some stats calculations, not required
var chars_proc = 0
  , seconds = 0
  , addresses = 0;

// Count bytes received from decompression Stream as they come in
dataStream.on('data', function (data) {
  chars_proc += data.length;
});

// Internal write string buffer, could have been done better, but it works!
var paused = false
  , p_buffer = '';

// Write function with buffering for output stream
function write_file(data) {
  p_buffer += data + '\n';
  if (paused) return;
  if (p_buffer.length > 1024) {
    if (!outStream.write(p_buffer))
      paused = true;
    p_buffer = '';
  }
}

// Start writing to output buffer when stream has drained
outStream.on('drain', function () {
  paused = false;
});

// Display stats every 10 seconds
var interval = setInterval(function () {
  seconds += 10;
  console.log('Processed', Math.round(chars_proc/1024/1024), 'mb in', seconds, 'seconds with', addresses, 'addresses', p_buffer.length, 'bytes buffered');
}, 10000);

// State variables and regexs for parsing OSM data 
var addr = false
  , addr_opened = false
  , addr_re = /^addr\:/
  , crlf_re = /(\r\n|\r|\n)/;

// Parse tags as they are opened, "node" tags begin new address data, "tag" tags are the data we want to dump.
saxStream.on('opentag', function (node) {
  switch (node.name) {
    case 'node':
      addr = true;
    break;
    case 'tag':
      var k = node.attributes.k
        , v = node.attributes.v;
      if (addr && k && k.match && k.match(addr_re)) {
        if (!addr_opened) {
//          console.log('addr:');
          write_file('addr:');
          addresses += 1;
          addr_opened = true;
        }
        if (v)
          v.replace(crlf_re, '\\n').trim();
//        console.log('\t' + k + '|'+ v);
        write_file('\t' + k + '|'+ v);
      }
    break;
  }
});

// Reset address tag opened variable when "node" tag is closed
saxStream.on('closetag', function (name) {
  if (name === 'node') addr = addr_opened = false;
});

// On SAX stream end cleanup
saxStream.on('end', function () {
  clearInterval(interval);
  outStream.end();
});

// Start pipeing data from decompression stream into SAX
dataStream.pipe(saxStream);

// That's all folks!