Osm files download

Commonly Used Formats us-latest. File size: 7. Other Formats and Auxiliary Files us-latest. Heavy use or large numbers of requests from many users should use one of the above mentioned services instead.

The region is specified by a bounding box , which consists of a minimum and maximum latitude and longitude. Choose as small a region as will be useful to you, since larger regions will result in larger data files, longer download times, and heavier load on the server.

When you're first starting out, choose a very small region so that you can figure things out quickly with small data sets. There are several ways of finding latitude and longitude values. Since we are interested in a bounding box, perhaps the clearest way is to use the bounding box selection features of the 'export data' link. On the homepage map pan and zoom to roughly the right area, and then click the 'export data' link on the left.

This sidebar display includes the four values you need for a bounding box matching the extents of the viewport. Click 'Manually select a different area' and then drag a box to select exactly the region you want. In the URL, a bounding box is expressed as four comma-separated numbers, in this order: left, bottom, right, top min long, min lat, max long, max lat.

Latitude and longitude are expressed in decimal degrees. North latitude is positive, south latitude is negative. West longitude is negative, east longitude is positive.

The method described in the previous section will give you suitable values. Sometimes it could be somewhat problematic when working in a project where the data is not available especially for base dataset like street, building, height, etc. Fortunately, we are living in a connected and a collaborated world where any body could contribute in a geospatial project to provide, edit and share GIS data to the world for free which is usually called open data.

OpenStreetMap OSM is a successful example of an open data project which is driven by mapper community around the world to maintain data about road, building, public transport, railway and much more. Operated by OpenStreetMap Foundation on behalf of the community with million users, OSM data is free to use for any purpose as long as the credit is given to OpenStreetMap and its contributors.

What is the difference between those two plugins? You'll find the answer in next section of this tutorial. Figure 1. Zoom in to your interested area, for example in figure 2, I zoomed into University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Select OSMDownloader's icon. Then select area where the data will be downloaded in a rectangle shape. The OSMDownloader window will appear as in figure 3. From the window can be seen the extent coordinate of the downloaded area.

In the Save Location option, specify where to store the data and check the Load layer after download option if you want to add the data to the QGIS map canvas. When it done, the downloaded data will be added to the QGIS map canvas as in figure 4. The shapefile is a common standard for representing geospatial vector data. There are several ways of working with Openstreetmap data and shapefiles.

OpenStreetMap Data Extracts. The OpenStreetMap data files provided on this server do not contain the user names, user IDs and changeset IDs of the OSM objects because these fields are assumed to contain personal information about the OpenStreetMap contributors and are therefore subject to data protection regulations in the European Union.