[Qgis-user] Road Labels

[Charles Dixon-Paver]

Sounds like you should be able to just export the roads you need from the
OpenStreetMap data you already have to resolve your issues.

If you have the OpenStreetMap state roads open in QGIS, zoom into your area
of interest. Right click the layer in the layer menu and select
Export>>Save Features As.

In the export menu there is an "Extent" section. Ensure this is enabled and
use the "Map Canvas Extent" button to calculate the extent of the current
view.

This should export just the roads that intersect your current view to a new
file, which can be in a format of your choice (gpkg, shp, kml etc).

Hopefully that will result in a dataset that you can manipulate without
causing a crash and you can get more comfortable interacting with QGIS.

There are other tools and workflows available, but this is the easiest I
can think of for a novice user. Someone else might have a better suggestion
though.

Regards


On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 15:20, Wanda Norman <wanda.mnorman2015 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Helpful Members;
>
>
>
> I am a fairly new user (about 3-4 months now).  I have been using the
> online tutorials, the training manual and anything I can understand.
>
>
>
> BACKGROUND
>
> I am a parking planner so I create maps of my study area, which is usually
> an entire city, in various US states.  For example, right now I am working
> on Rockford, Michigan, USA.  I know it is a small area, but it is one in
> which we have already done the study and I am trying to recreate everything
> we did for them (my GIS person no longer works with us, so I am learning).
>
>
>
> WHAT I NEED TO DO
>
> I need to be able to add a layer containing street names for my study
> area.  This layer needs to have an attribute table I can manipulate to get
> only the streets (labels) within my study area.  I do not want the point
> bubbles (ex: Target, Leo's Coney Island, etc.) that point out restaurants
> and places of interest that I seem unable to get rid of when I use google
> roads (xyz: https://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=h&x={x}&y={y}&z={z} ).
>
>
>
> WHAT I HAVE TRIED
>
> I am unable to manipulate data in open street maps.  I have tried to
> download the roads vector file from the State of Michigan.  However, this
> file is so huge (as it contains every road in the state) it keeps crashing
> every time I try to manipulate it.  I have been able to select just the
> roads in the area I want using an expression, but it crashes when I try to
> select one of the roads to remove it from the study area (stragglers I do
> not want to show after using the select area tool).  I have also tried to
> select all the records I do not need in an effort to delete them in the
> hopes of making the file smaller.  Again, it crashes.
>
>
>
> MY QUESTION
>
> Can someone please give me a link to a tutorial that will show me where
> and how to get just the road names for any US city (as I need them).  Or
> provide me with directions to do what I need?  I have been trying to figure
> this out for over 2 months now and just can’t seem to find what I need.
>
>
>
> As my computer constantly crashed using QGIS after the new Windows
> updates, we have installed new hardware in hopes to keep it from crashing.
>
>
>
> Dell Computer
>
> Currently have 16 gig memory (increased from 8)
>
> 2 gig AMD Radian R5 Video card (newly installed)
>
> Core I3 processor
>
> Using QGIS 3.10.9 (3.14 won’t load)
>
>
>
> Sorry for the long email.  Please let me know if you require more info.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your kind attention.
>
>
> Wanda Norman
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