A python script to download GNSS RINEX files from Tailte Éireann (formerly Ordnance Survey of Ireland or OSI) Active GNSS Station network. The data download site is at https://gnss.osi.ie. Before downloading data, please agree to terms and conditions at https://gnss.osi.ie first. This software is covered by the MIT License.
This script is known to be working as of 2024-11-20.
Note: it seems only the last 30 days of data can be downloaded.
Getting help on command line options:
python3 osi_gnss_download.py -h
Getting a list of station IDs:
python3 osi_gnss_download.py --list-stations
Downloading data:
python3 osi_gnss_download.py --station-id=glw1 --date=2024-11-19 --start-hour=00 --end-hour=06
Data is downloaded as a ZIP archive and saved in format RINEX_{stnid}_{date}_{start_hour}_{end_hour}.zip.
Example: 'RINEX_glw1_2024-11-19_00_06.zip'
This script makes use of the requests and BeautifulSoup packages. On Ubuntu 22.04 these can be installed with the following command:
sudo apt-get install python3-requests python3-bs4
usage: osi_gnss_download.py [-h] [--list-stations] --station-id STATION_ID
--date DATE [--start-hour START_HOUR]
[--end-hour END_HOUR] [--user-agent USER_AGENT]
Download GNSS RINEX files from https://gnss.osi.ie. Please agree to T&C on
site first.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--list-stations Obtain a list of station IDs and exit. (default:
False)
--station-id STATION_ID
Station ID. Use --list-stations to obtain an
exhaustive list. Example glw1 (Galway) (default: None)
--date DATE Date of data capture yyyy-mm-dd (default: None)
--start-hour START_HOUR
Start hour (UTC) 0 to 22 (default: 0)
--end-hour END_HOUR End hour (UTC) 1 to 23 (default: 24)
--user-agent USER_AGENT
User-agent header to use in transaction (default:
GNSS_OSI_download v1.0)