How to get the latitude and longitude for a location through downloaded open street map

[Simon_XG_Y]

I have downloaded an open street map. Given a business name (like KFC) and the city or region location (like North Oakland, USA), how could I find the coordinate, the latitude and longitude for that business location?

[Le_Sharkoïste1 (Le Sharkoïste)]

Which app/program did you download OSM data with?

[Simon_XG_Y]

Go to the open street map website to directly download the particular country’s map in the osm.pbf or the parquet format. No specific program or app is used

[Richard (Richard Fairhurst)]

openstreetmap.org doesn’t offer either country-specific downloads or GeoParquet files. Could you say the actual URL you’re downloading from?

[woodpeck (Frederik Ramm)]

@Simon_XG_Y

how could I find the coordinate, the latitude and longitude for that business location?

What you want is called “geocoding” (translating an address or other location description to a pair of coordinates). You would typically use geocoding software for that, either Nominatim or Photon. Downloading the data is not sufficient, you will need to run the software too. Then you can send API requests to your locally running software.