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To overcome this limitation, the **osmextract** package was developed, which can be used to download and import binary `.pbf` files containing compressed versions of the OSM database for pre-defined regions.
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OpenStreetMap is a vast global database of crowd-sourced data, is growing daily, and has a wider ecosystem of tools enabling easy access to the data, from the [Overpass turbo](https://overpass-turbo.eu/) web service for rapid development and testing of OSM queries to the [osm2pgsql](https://osm2pgsql.org/) for importing the data into a PostGIS database.
OpenStreetMap is a vast global database of crowd-sourced data, is growing daily, and has a wider ecosystem of tools enabling easy access to the data, from the [Overpass turbo](https://overpass-turbo.eu/) web service for rapid development and testing of OSM queries to [osm2pgsql](https://osm2pgsql.org/) for importing the data into a PostGIS database.
Although the quality of datasets derived from OSM varies, the data source and wider OSM ecosystems have many advantages: they provide datasets that are available globally, free of charge, and constantly improving thanks to an army of volunteers.
Using OSM encourages 'citizen science' and contributions back to the digital commons (you can start editing data representing a part of the world you know well at [www.openstreetmap.org](https://www.openstreetmap.org)).
Further examples of OSM data in action are provided in Chapters \@ref(gis), \@ref(transport) and \@ref(location).
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