[Qgis-user] QGIS to load spefific OpenStreetMap data

Jorge Gustavo Rocha jgr at geomaster.pt
Tue May 14 16:24:15 PDT 2019


Hi,

Thank you for the feedback, Clifford. Adding the suffix 'in Zurich' is
better than using the bounding box. Good point! We can drop the 'shop'
key and simply write: 'bakery or supermarket in Zurich' in the Wizard.
Much better!

Regards,

Jorge Gustavo


Às 00:02 de 15/05/19, Clifford Snow escreveu:
> Stefan,
> Let me make one suggestion to Jorge's overpass query. By using the
> Overpass-Turbo Wizard search for shop=bakery or shop=supermarket in
> Zurich. By adding in Zurich, the query will leave out objects in
> adjacent cities.
> 
> From the overpass turbo webpage, export the data as a geojson to load
> into QGIS. Should work like a charm.
> 
> Best
> Clifford
> 
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:43 PM Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr at geomaster.pt
> <mailto:jgr at geomaster.pt>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Stefan,
> 
>     Às 22:28 de 14/05/19, Stefan Keller escreveu:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I'm preparing a talk about QGIS and OpenStreetMap for the annual
>     > meeting of the local QGIS chapter.
>     >
>     > => Question: How do you (users) load specific OSM data into QGIS, like
>     > for example all bakeries of Zurich? (ways/polygons as centroids?)
>     >
> 
>     I prefer to go to the overpass end point, to show how easy is to extract
>     OpenStreetMap data. It is faster than installing a plugin.
> 
>     For a talk, use the overpass Wizard to build the query.
> 
>     1) Go to http://overpass-turbo.eu/
>     2) Search for Zurich
>     3) Open the Wizard
>     4) Just type: bakery
>     5) Build and run query
>     6) Export as GeoJson
>     7) Add layer to QGIS (eventually points and polygons; calculate the
>     centroids for the polygons in QGIS)
> 
>     Good luck for your presentation.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Jorge Gustavo
> 
>     > Background: QGIS 2 had a built in downloader which is gone in QGIS 3.
>     > This instruction is 4y old [1], and this wiki page seems to be
>     > outdated too [2].
>     >
>     > I know, that QGIS can read OpenStreetMap XML (.osm) and .PBF files as
>     > vector layer. And I know about these two plugins: OSMDownloader [3]
>     > and QuickOSM [4].
>     >
>     > * OSMDownloader requests a bbox from the user, then downloads the
>     > whole area through the OSM API using the OGR OSM driver.
>     > * QuickOSM generates queries in outdated Overpass XML, but accepts
>     > also the newer Overpass QL language, like for example the following:
>     >
>     > [out:xml];
>     > area[name="Uster"];
>     > (
>     >   nwr[shop~"supermarket|bakery"](area);
>     > );
>     > out body;
>     >> ;
>     > out skel qt;
>     >
>     > :Stefan
>     >
>     > [1] https://learnosm.org/en/osm-data/osm-in-qgis/
>     > [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QGIS
>     > [3] https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/OSMDownloader/
>     > [4] https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/
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