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Is there an API for OpenStreetMap that I can get a residential street name when passing city, state to it?

asked 02 Jan '19, 04:15

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edited 03 Jan '19, 20:03

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There are lots of different things that have built within the OSM ecosystem, so I can't rule out the possibility entirely, but it seems unlikely that there are any existing tools that have been designed to return a random street. You'd probably have to come up with your own custom-built solution. One way to do this would be to get the boundary of the city, select a random set of coordinates within that area, and then query a reverse geocoder to get a street near those coordinates.

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answered 02 Jan '19, 19:56

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