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ANSWER: ''Ways get rendered as streets/railways/footpaths/canals etc according to the tag(s) indicating what type of way it is.'´' Ways are contiguous and non-branching. (You can get from beginning to end by following segments of the way, without "jumping" or backtracing)
 
''I am having trouble finding the ways in the xml data''
 
''Ways get rendered as streets/railways/footpaths/canals etc according to the tag(s) indicating what type of way it is.'´' Ways are contiguous and non-branching. (You can get from beginning to end by following segments of the way, without "jumping" or backtracing)


eg: <tag k="addr:street" v="Mauritsstraat"/>
eg: <tag k="addr:street" v="Mauritsstraat"/>

Revision as of 02:57, 14 November 2011

Maps

I have recently found open street maps, an alternative to googlemaps. Not only it is a open-source project that allows anyone to contribute for the improvement of the maps, but it has a great feature of allowing data inserted by the users to be retrieved.


I would like to use in to create non-functional maps or trajectories that could open new perspectives on on the city space. (situationists echos)


OSM Elements

source: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features

maps are made up of a few simple elements (Data primitives): nodes, ways and relations. Each element may have an arbitrary number of properties (a.k.a. Tags) which are Key-Value pairs (e.g. highway=primary). (All editing interfaces use the elements and allow the input of tags. )


NODE - the basic element, building block. Nodes consist of latitude and longitude (Nodes are needed to define a way, but a node can also be a standalone unconnected point representing something or points of interest (POI). Standalone nodes should always have at least one Tag such as amenity=telephone). Example <node id="25496583" lat="51.5173639" lon="-0.140043" version="1" changeset="203496" user="80n" uid="1238" visible="true" timestamp="2007-01-28T11:40:26Z"><tag k="highway" v="traffic_signals"/> </node>


WAY - ordered interconnection of at least 2 or more nodes can describe a street, footpath, railway line, river, fence, power line, area or building outline. CLOSED WAY - the first and last nodes are identical, enclosing an AREA eg:

 <way id="5090250" visible="true" timestamp="2009-01-19T19:07:25Z" version="8" changeset="816806" user="Blumpsy" uid="64226">
   <nd ref="822403"/>
   <nd ref="21533912"/>
   <nd ref="821601"/>
   <nd ref="21533910"/>
   <nd ref="135791608"/>
   <nd ref="333725784"/>
   <nd ref="333725781"/>
   <nd ref="333725774"/>
   <nd ref="333725776"/>
   <nd ref="823771"/>
   <tag k="highway" v="unclassified"/>
   <tag k="name" v="Clipstone Street"/>
   <tag k="oneway" v="yes"/>
 </way>


Retrieve Data

To acess data of a given area in http://www.openstreetmap.org/ go to Export Menu and check the coordinates. they organized as [bbox=lat,long, lat++, long++] area[1,3,2,0] or in other works [lat,long, lat++, long++]

EXAMPLES: search a small are in west Rotterdam: http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/node[bbox=4.4552603823670465,51.91739525301985,4.46384345121436,51.920373035178464] -O rotterdam-west-test.osm

search pubs in Rotterdam wget http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/node[amenity=pub][bbox=4.3142405612056836,51.87797066611181,4.588898764319719,51.973245376533505] -O rotterdam-pub-test.osm

search for libraries in the London: wget http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/*[amenity=library][bbox=-0.57,51.24,0.31,51.75] -O london.osm


I am having trouble finding the ways in the xml data

Ways get rendered as streets/railways/footpaths/canals etc according to the tag(s) indicating what type of way it is.'´' Ways are contiguous and non-branching. (You can get from beginning to end by following segments of the way, without "jumping" or backtracing)

eg: <tag k="addr:street" v="Mauritsstraat"/>


relevant links:

http://derickrethans.nl/what-is-openstreetmap.html Good explanation of OSM project

http://weait.com/content/openstreetmap-planet-file

http://derickrethans.nl/spatial-indexes-data-sqlite.html

SVG

osmarander is an applicaiton to create svgs out of osm data http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender

Gave it a try with XMLstarlet, but didn't menage to get it. Try another evening

Mapgen is another possibility http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapgen.pl