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How can I extract data from OSM which includes street names?
You can extract data from OSM for a particular region but you cant get the name for your streets with a location query because they surely wont match perfectly. See this question: How can I extract data from OSM which includes the street names? for information about OSM data extraction procedure.
How can I convert OSM data to shapefiles?
Converts OSM data not only to shapefiles but to any vector format which has write support in GDAL/OGR – PostGIS, Oracle, MapInfo, GML, Spatialite etc. Spatial Manager is a software suite for converting geospatial datasets. Includes its own OSM data provider.
How to get street names from OpenStreetMap data?
The streets/highways layer has names of streets and the buildings have numbers and type, when provided by the OSM user who created or edited the feature. You can also select the output to be any of the file formats you mentioned. You can get shapefiles build from OSM data for most parts of the world from Geofabrik.
What does shapefile mean in OpenStreetMap wiki?
The shapefile is in fact a grouping of several files formatted to represent different aspects of geodata: .shp — shape format; the feature geometry itself. .shx — shape index format; a positional index of the feature geometry to allow seeking forwards and backwards quickly.
How to get the CSV list in OSM?
The CSV option of osmconvert will help you generating the required list. First, use osmfilter with –keep=”highway=residential =primary =secondary =tertiaty =unclassified”, etc., to get all streets, then use osmconvert with –all-to-nodes and –csv=” @lon @lat name etc.” to get the CSV list.
What’s the best way to extract a street list?
You can use osmfilter or grep to extract the info your want. Maposmatic will give you a csv of the streets, but it shows a local grid reference instead of an exact lat-long. Maybe you can reverse that reference to get the approximate lat/lon, since you know the bounding box and the size of the grid ?