whocares1980 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Hi there friends, Do you know a way that I could extract streets as polygons (not center lines)? I tried universal Maps downloader but as you know I got the streets as images not polygons as I want to find the width of the streets!! Thanks Wk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shin_conan Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 As a matter of fact, one can use various services to extract OSM vector data. Have a look at http://export.hotosm.org (my favorite), or http://www.geofabrik.de/data/shapefiles.html, or http://overpass-turbo.eu/ or other services (as far as I can remember, QGIS can also be used to donwload OSM data). However, the result will be a polyline instead of a polygon, but I think it's a start 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whocares1980 Posted January 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 As a matter of fact, one can use various services to extract OSM vector data. Have a look at http://export.hotosm.org (my favorite), or http://www.geofabrik.de/data/shapefiles.html, or http://overpass-turbo.eu/ or other services (as far as I can remember, QGIS can also be used to donwload OSM data). However, the result will be a polyline instead of a polygon, but I think it's a start Thanks shin... I have Navteq data for my study area as polyline and up to date... I need to find the total area of roads, hence I need the polygon. Were you referring the polyline result for only QGIS or for all the methods you mentioned above? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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