[OHM] Master thesis, new silk road

[Rob H Warren]

Wojciech,

That data is likely in OSM proper. Date tags will be missing but you can likely use the edit dates as a proxy for road existence. You can calculate gross statistical transport data using the tile server databases and the postgis extensions. You'll need to setup on your own tile server database, expect about 1TB of data to host that yourself.

For statistical CO2 emissions et al, the most likely source is one of the reports of the Paris Agreement which likely tabulated most of this as part of the negotiations.

Wish you all the best in your thesis research. -R

> On Aug 26, 2019, at 3:38 PM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:03:35 +0200
> From: Wojciech Krzyśpiak <wojciech.krzyspiak at gmail.com>
> To: historic at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OHM] Master thesis, new silk road
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> Dear OSM team,
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> my name is Wojciech Andrzej Krzyśpiak and I am from Poland. I am a Computer
> Science and Econometrics student on Warsaw University of Life Sciences. As
> part of my Master thesis, I am analyzing the countries of the new silk road
> using taxonomic methods and gravity models.
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> 
> 
> Therefore, I am writing to you with a question. Is it possible to provide
> me with data about the Infrastructure and Environment of countries
> presented below? I’m looking for data such us: road length, highway length,
> railway length, roads density, CO2 emissions or anything what is similar
> and describes infrastructure or environment of country, from year 2004 to
> 2018. If it is possible in .xls (excel) format. These data are crucial for
> case of study but it is very difficult to find them for a countries in some
> regions, especially over the years.
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> 
> 
> I hope that it will not be a problem for you and I will be grateful for
> even a little help. Thanks to this information I will be able to work more
> efficiently. If you will be interested, I will be honored to share the
> results with you and mention your help in the study.
> 
> 
> 
> Countries, year 2004-2018:
>