Hi there,
I’m trying to get a list of all the streets in the US by name. I checked the geonames data dump and it didn’t appear to have any streets in the file, just lots of other types of places. Is there any way to export a list of streets from OSM in XML (or any format, really)?
Not off the shelf. You can get the whole world from: planet.osm that’s an xml you can filter that… Going to take you a while.
Or you can use OSMXAPI and request all highway=* ways. Going to take even longer I think.
Thanks for the response - any suggestions on how to filter the XML file? (I can’t actually view the structure because I downloaded just the Wyoming file and it was 830 MB, too big to open up directly…)
First I want to ask if you really just want to have a list of the names?
Second I’ll say I haven’t solved this for you but I can give you some experimenting that I did with XSL:s, these can extract names from XML pretty easily, but it might be slow on a 900MB file…
First rename the uncompressed Openstreetmap data file as “map.osm”, then open render.xml in a browser or as described in the Osmarender howto.
style.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:variable name="data" select="document('map.osm')"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<h2>All Ways with names</h2>
<table><tr><th align="left">name</th><th>way id</th></tr>
<xsl:for-each select="$data/osm/way/tag[@k='name']">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@v"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="../@id"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
**
render.xml**
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="style.xsl"?>
<dummyworthlesstag/>
**
Misc examples**
All these examples require that you save the code as “style.xsl” and then a stylesheet xml tag to the osm file. like this:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="style.xsl"?>
All ways that have a name, with way id:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/osm">
<html>
<h2>All ways with names</h2>
<table><tr><th align="left">name</th><th>way id</th></tr>
<xsl:for-each select="way/tag[@k='name']">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@v"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="../@id"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
All ways and all their tags
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>All the Ways and their tags.</h2>
<table border="0">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">way id</th>
<th align="left">way tags</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="osm/way">
<tr><td> <xsl:value-of select="@id"/> </td>
<td>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">key</th>
<th align="left">value</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="tag">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@k"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@v"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</td></tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
All ways and names on the ones that have one
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>All ways and names on the ones that have one</h2>
<table border="0">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">way id</th>
<th align="left">name</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="osm/way">
<tr><td> <xsl:value-of select="@id"/> </td>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="tag[@k='name']">
<td><xsl:value-of select="@v"/></td>
</xsl:for-each>
</td></tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Also it would be possible to extract a list from pgsql, import the data with osm2pgsql then this
psql gis
select name from planet_osm_line where name is not null;
Yes that is simpler, can you get a position or a bounding box for those ways that as well? But actually it would be possible from XAPI as well. Just do a [name=*] in the download parameter.
Hmm…I tried both methods above, but render.xml just rendered completely blank, and I can’t seem to get PostgreSQL up and running to use osm2pgsql without an error. Are there any other methods you guys know of to get this data into a usable format?
What error do you get from PostGIS? I think that getting data into PostGIS could be very good alternative for you. Not only could you select all names of the highways (select name from planet_osm_line where name is not null and highway is not null), but you could also sort the results by places (is_in), highway classes etc.
I used ubuntu 8.04, installed postgres 8.3 with postgis extensions installed (which I had to do add in a config). After some trial and error it worked… 
So if you post us the error messages, I’m sure someone can helpt you.
Unfortunately, I’m running all this on windows, which seems to lack documentation. In pgAdmin I can see that I have a running server on localhost, with the postgis database properly configured. The error I get is:
“Using projection SRS 3395
Setting up table: planet_osm_point
Connection to database failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied”
I have a pgpass.conf file set up, which, from the few posts I could find about this problem, is supposed to solve it, but it doesn’t. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to set the password in flags for osm2pgsql. Any ideas?
according to this page http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man1/osm2pgsql.html -W should force a password prompt.
Hi,
It is in the server settings, in file pg_hba.conf. That must be set to use method “trust”. Windows version on osm2pgsql does not give any way to give username and password. Therefore you must create a user with the same name as you are logged in to Windows, and set database so that it does not ask password at all. This same information is in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User_talk:JRA.
I believe that nobody is going to update or improve osm2pgsql.exe for us Windows users without getting paid for it. I am ready to invest some money for the development. I fear that after new API 0.6 comes I will be without PostGIS updates.
I can only find one ticket in trac concerning Windows. So: Identify the problems, and possible solutions and people might help you out.