Introducing OpenStreetMapX

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project in which to create and keep updating a digital map of the world that you can explore at www.openstreetmap.org. You can download the map of a desired region of the world in the OSM format—an XML file—from that site. In Julia, you can parse OSM files using the OpenStreetMapX package. Then, you can visualize it using Plots, the default option, PyPlot, through the OpenStreetMapXPlot package, or using the folium Python package, through PyCall. Let’s quickly explore the OpenStreetMapX and OpenStreetMapXPlot packages by plotting a map of present-day Soho, London, using Pluto:

1. In the first cell, execute the following code:

   using OpenStreetMapX, OpenStreetMapXPlot, Plots

This loads the necessary library to plot the data from OpenStreetMap in Julia using Plots.

2. Execute the following code in a new cell:

   Download("https: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Interactive-Visualization...