[Qgis-user] OSM data gaps

[Clifford Snow]

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:55 PM, JOE LEMONNIER <jlemonnier at mac.com> wrote:

> I've download the OSM data from Vector>open street map> download data.
> Then imported the topology from xml then exported to Spatialite specifying
> poly lines. When do this for the span of lower Manhattan in New York City,
> I get a beautiful set of map data that is unfortunately missing quite a few
> major streets. Exporting as polygons doesn't omit those streets from the
> map but I need the center lines. Importing the .osm file directly gives the
> same results of missing  streets. I've tried 4 times with same results.


I have been successful downloading pbf files from either
https://mapzen.com/metro-extracts/ or
http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html. Mapzen is nice that it gives
data for major cities. Then using osm2pgsql to load the data into a postgis
database.

Mapzen provides the data in a number of different formats, including
geojson which may provide you with a closer match to what you are looking
for.

Clifford


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