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Help for my final yr project…extracting osm data

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can any one help me by telling me how can i extract speed limit of a road from the osm data,with the roads coordinates and name. so that i can use the extracted data in labview as an offline data which helps me to compare the coordinates with the one i acquire from a gps device and find the road name and its speed limit. Thank you

asked 13 Jan '13, 03:30

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Go to the OSM wiki and have a look at the tag called "maxspeed".

And if you want to filter the raw OSM data for special tags like maxspeed or others, have a look for osmfilter or overpassAPI ... in the wiki and also on this FAQ site.

answered 13 Jan '13, 10:16

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edited 13 Jan '13, 13:46

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