Converting OpenStreetMap Data to Road Networks for Downstream Applications
This work addresses the need for road network data for applications like navigation or urban planning, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to a specific dataset.
The paper tackled the problem of converting OpenStreetMap data into road networks by processing OSM XML data to extract nodes and ways, resulting in a street map of the Memphis area for use in downstream applications.
We study how to convert OpenStreetMap data to road networks for downstream applications. OpenStreetMap data has different formats. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is one of them. OSM data consist of nodes, ways, and relations. We process OSM XML data to extract the information of nodes and ways to obtain the map of streets of the Memphis area. We can use this map for different downstream applications.