[Talk-in] Extracting road information from particular cities.

Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 17:01:30 GMT 2010


Hi,

You could use XAPI[1] and query with different tag types.Visit
www.openstreetmap.org and zoom into place of interest and click on the
export tab, you get the coords for bounding box.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi


Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 22:25, bharath vissapragada <
bharathvissapragada1990 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi pradeep,
>
>
> Thanks for replying..
>
> Can you let me know how to find the bounding box attributes for cities
> .. .. Also how to use this bounding box .. can you give a simple
> example .. I am new to this osm data .. So Iam finding it a bit tough
> to process it .. Kindly bear my simple doubts !
>
> Thanks in anticipation,
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Pradeep B V <pradeepbv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cant you just use the bounding box for Mumbai and get all data?
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM, bharath vissapragada
> > <bharathvissapragada1990 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >> We are trying to extract the road/street network for each city in the
> >> Indian osm dataset.
> >>
> >> We are writing our own parser for this . We are trying to use the
> >> relation,way,node tags to do this .
> >>
> >> But I am unable to understand how to find all the roads for city for
> >> eg. Mumbai.??
> >>
> >> Do I need to see "Mumbai" in the relation tag ?? This doesn't seem to
> >> be working as the parser is unable to find relations with Mumbai (just
> >> a few are found).
> >>
> >> Are these datasets already available?? (lat,long info of each road..)
> >>
> >>
> >> Please help me in this regard ...
> >>
> >> Any help is highly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
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