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

2010-12-12 Thread bharath vissapragada
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

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

2010-12-12 Thread Pradeep B V
Cant you just use the bounding box for Mumbai and get all data? On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM, bharath vissapragada bharathvissapragada1...@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

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

2010-12-12 Thread bharath vissapragada
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

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

2010-12-12 Thread Pradeep B V
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 should help you. or you can use http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ to get the data. (will work for small sets) For bounding box open this link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=19.07lon=72.988zoom=11layers=M and click on the export tab and you will see the

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

2010-12-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
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

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

2010-12-12 Thread bharath vissapragada
Hi, The web api is working for smaller datasets and is generating You requested too many nodes (limit is 5). Either request a smaller area, or use planet.osm if the area is huge .. Are there any tools which can do this computation on my local machine using the planet.osm ? Can we download