OpenStreetMap Import – generate roads from OSM with street names and road-type selection

Uploaded · Published January 4, 2020 · Updated January 12, 2020

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Author: dopefish

Last revision: 9 Jan, 2020 at 20:05 UTC (3)

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This mod will add a button in the "Map Editor" which opens a panel for importing OSM data from https://openstreetmap.org.

I found OSM import mod which was not working for me, so I made it work and added some features:

select road-types to build according to OSM data (also gives you a rough estimate of node counts and limit)
roads are being named correctly (as long as the way element in the OSM data has a name tag)

Short instructions

go to http://terrain.party and download the heightmap of your desired region
in the downloaded zip file you will find a text file with the exported coordiates
go to openstreetmap.org and click on Export
enter the same coordiates as in the textfile
use the overpass-api.de link to download large datasets
rename file to map.osm and move it to the Documents folder (or enter the correct file path in the mod, no matter what)
enter "2.5" in the "tiles to boundary" field to only draw roads the inner 25 tiles, use "4.5" to make roads on all 81 tiles

For more detailed instructions how to use please see original mod: https://github.com/adur1990/Open-Cities-Map

Todo

avoid too short road segments (especially on intersections)
fix intersections for roads not created in one run
maybe allow selecting which roads should be created in CS – currently it’s using hard-coded defaults
better estimates for node counts (current estimates are way higher than actual number of nodes produced)

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