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An empty first highway name output when running osm-length-2.pl to calculate road length

Hello,

I am using osm-length-2.pl script to summarize road length of a country. The script is working well except it outputs the first type of highway with an empty name:

highway length sums (metres):

                  38856413m
track              7762817m
secondary          1941725m
residential        1747145m
service            1315326m
path               1080010m
primary             927921m
footway             881391m
...
TOTAL             56823848m

Does anyone have this issue?

highway_name osm-length

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asked 08 Sep '16, 04:34

trungnk
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edited 08 Sep '16, 04:45

One Answer:

The script sums up the lengths of all ways, not only highways, and the first number is the length of all non-highway ways. I have modified the script in SVN to stop doing that, so if you check out a new version the first line will be gone.

answered 08 Sep '16, 09:46

Frederik Ramm ♦
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Thanks Frederik. I can see the filters are updated. From osm highway definition almost covers all the type of road. Do the non-highways ways you mentioned are relations?

(09 Sep '16, 00:53) trungnk

Ways and relations are different things, see elements. Non-highway ways can be buildings, landuses, water bodies, forests, parks, railways, walls and fences, ways for administrative boundaries and so on.

(09 Sep '16, 07:47) scai ♦

So the non-highway ways are not ways. They take a significant amount of length when the script calculates length of roads. Thus when comparing to the statistic data obtainted we see there are a half kilometres amout deducted after removing non-highways "things"

(09 Sep '16, 13:55) trungnk

They are ways, OSM ways :)

(09 Sep '16, 14:25) scai ♦