Accessing OSM from AWS
There are several ways that the AWS platform can integrate nicely with OSM. Current planet data can be accessed and filtered, while changesets showing historical modifications provide additional insight into how geospatial data has changed over time. Thanks to numerous white papers and blog posts on the topic since the AWS Public Datasets program released access in 2017, accessing OSM from within AWS is surprisingly simple.
As with many other data exploration examples in this book, Amazon Athena will be used. Athena is a great AWS service for exploring geospatial data since it can access a wide range of source data. Unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data stored in S3 or other formats can be structured into tables and views that query the data from the source location. Because OSM data is hosted on S3, Athena integrates well with OSM. If you plan to follow along with these examples, make sure Athena is configured with an S3 bucket for the results...