If I export OSM data for an area, is there a tool that I can use to extract data about all of the instances of just one type of feature from it? What has happened is that our bicycle club has mapped all of the bicycle parking on our university campus. The campus planning department found out about it and wants to give the locations and capacities to one of their consultants to help with updating the campus plan. We would of course like to give it to them, since it will help get additional bike parking on campus.
The planning department and consultant do everything in AutoCAD and ArcGIS. All they really want from us is the locations, capacities, and types (which is recorded in note=*) for the bike parking. We had planned to simply use ArcGIS to read the exported XML file, but for some reason it won't, and we are told that the problem is a known bug in ArcGIS. A flat .csv or .txt file would probably be fine. There is a student in the club who could probably write something to do this, but I thought we should check first to see if someone has already written a feature extractor. I should also mention that the campus planning department has expressed interest in using OSM to store some of their data on campus infrastructure, so we would like to provide them with the ability to do more such queries. Ed Hillsman Faculty Advisor to Bicycle Club at USF _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
