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<p>One thing you could do is take the roads you downloaded for
Michigan and clip them against the county boundary. You should be
able to get the county boundary from the Michican open data site
or the census. If you add both the roads and county boundary to
your QGIS session I would <br>
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<p>1. select your county</p>
<p>2. Open the processing toolbox <br>
</p>
<p>3. search for clip <br>
</p>
<p>4. Be sure to clip the roads with the selected county <br>
</p>
<p>5. Save out your new roads layer to a shapefile (or geopackage)
and work with the smaller dataset. <br>
</p>
<p>Yell if you have any problems - good luck! <br>
</p>
<p>Randy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/20 9:26 AM, Wanda Norman
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Helpful Members;</p>
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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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style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<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)" moz-do-not-send="true">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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