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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BACKGROUND</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">WHAT I NEED TO DO</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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: <a href="https://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=h&x=%7bx%7d&y=%7by%7d&z=%7bz%7d" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=h&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}</a>
). </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">WHAT I HAVE TRIED</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">MY QUESTION</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As my computer constantly crashed using QGIS after the new
Windows updates, we have installed new hardware in hopes to keep it from
crashing.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dell Computer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently have 16 gig memory (increased from 8)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2 gig AMD Radian R5 Video card (newly installed)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Core I3 processor</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Using QGIS 3.10.9 (3.14 won’t load)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sorry for the long email. Please let me know if you
require more info.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thank you for your kind attention.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wanda Norman</p></div>