Find street names

[jazzzchan]

• Streets that OSMnx maps out are in segment (block/nodes) form of per street. How do we define which segments belong to one street? I.E how do we tell which segment is the beginning of Houston St and which is the end?

• How can we give street names/ geographical information to each street that we have found? Or how can we find street names in order to define which segments belong to which street?

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[jazzzchan]

https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/377 this issue looks relevant to our problem

[ywnch]

Current solution in the nyc sandbox is to group them back together in a dataframe. This introduces some problems to be discussed further.

[vr00n]

Great question.

We discussed this in length during #9

Beginning and End are relative terms. It depends on which direction you look at the map (North, South, East West) OR if a street is one-way where the direction is enforced already.

• Indexing based on Name and From-To Nodes
• Example used: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/260042856#map=17/40.01316/-105.28674&layers=D

OSM contains Node information for every Way and this can be used to identify, spatially, the street segments.

I also asked everyone to check out https://github.com/Streets-Data-Collaborative/geo-street-talk-global and speak with Yukun Van about how you can combine methods from there and use here.