Get streets distance in osm?

Hey, I'm kinda new at this so bare with me. I downloaded my country osm data and put it in postgres. I would like to make a research on the data so I can for example have all the streets in a radius of 5 miles from a location (ultimately I would like to work directly with the data and not go through external api's. I looked at the data in the roads table and ,in there, there is that column "way" (900913). Can I use the data in that column to reach my goal ? What does the data in that column really represent ? I know it's something related to projection but it's vague.

asked 12 Apr '15, 03:21

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The way column contains the geometry of the street (for those objects where the highway column is not null). Your problem can likely be solved using the PostGIS function st_dwithin; for further information, check the PostGIS manual or generic PostGIS resources - this is not an OSM specific question.

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answered 12 Apr '15, 09:46

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