I'm an aerial photographer who want to extract street names from OSM corresponding to my photographed area. How would I go about this? Is there software available for this at all? Thanks asked 18 Mar '13, 11:39 Reflex |
Use the Overpass API for that. You will need the lat/lon coordinates of your picture frame corners. Then pass them to Overpass API, along with your query, and parse the generated XML/JSON. You'll probably want ways tagged with highway=... and name=... You'll get that with a query like
Find a reference of the language used for querying overpass api at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Language_Guide If you want to draw the streets overlain on your photo, you'll probably be best off with e.g. Quantum GIS/ArcGIS as a tool. Quality of the result will depend on how good the georeferencing of your photo is. This will be quite difficult if you don't have any background in GIS. answered 18 Mar '13, 13:56 gormo |