Predict Economic Measurements with OpenStreetMap¶

Nikolai Janakiev @njanakiev ¶

Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space¶

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Henderson, J. Vernon, Adam Storeygard, and David N. Weil. "Measuring economic growth from outer space." American economic review 102.2 (2012): 994-1028.

Measurements in Economics¶

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)¶

Defined by the OECD as "an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross value added of all resident and instituional units engaged in production."

Big Mac Index¶

The Economist Magazine created the index in 1986 as an informal way of comparing Purchasing Power between currencies against the U.S. Dollar.

Human Development Index (HDI)¶

Composite index consisting of life expectancy, education and per capita income indicators which are used to rank countries by their human development.

Loading Data from OpenStreetMap¶

Using the Overpass API and the Overpass QL

In [1]:

import requests

overpass_url = "http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter"
overpass_query = """
[out:json];
area["ISO3166-1"="DE"][admin_level=2]->.search;
node[place="city"](area.search);
out count;"""
response = requests.get(overpass_url, params={'data': overpass_query})
response.json()

Out[1]:

{'elements': [{'id': 0,
   'tags': {'areas': '0',
    'nodes': '82',
    'relations': '0',
    'total': '82',
    'ways': '0'},
   'type': 'count'}],
 'generator': 'Overpass API 0.7.55 579b1eec',
 'osm3s': {'copyright': 'The data included in this document is from www.openstreetmap.org. The data is made available under ODbL.',
  'timestamp_areas_base': '2018-05-04T11:27:02Z',
  'timestamp_osm_base': '2018-05-04T12:17:02Z'},
 'version': 0.6}