[Talk-us] tools for analysis of road networks?

[Richard Welty]

On 12/5/12 10:04 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/05/2012 03:55 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> i'm looking at a need to do some analysis & estimation based on road 
>> nets
>> extracted from OSM; the goal is to be able to estimate things like 
>> time to
>> complete ground surveys (e.g., TIGER review and collection of hydrant
>> locations.)
>>
>> are there any libraries or tools kicking around that folks might have
>> developed and would be willing to share?
>
> Not a big help but there's a tool in SVN called osm-length that will 
> report how many metres of each highway type there are in any given OSM 
> XML file. Could be a start.
thanks, that could be a big help. whatever i develop, i expect to have 
to work out
away to distinguish between urban/suburban/rural networks as there is a 
distinct
difference in time to survey, although right now i am reluctant to 
characterize how
much it really is.

richard