spacebug2d ago
How does OpenStreetMap store it's map data?

I'm woking in AutoCAD at work and I'm getting the feeling that if I were to store the OSM map data in AutoCAD it would be a huge file, yet the files I download in CoMaps are small with regards of how much data they contain.

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Show threadThibaultmol 🌈2d ago

@spacebug I mean, you probably don't need all the data right? just a section of it?
Any idea what file format you want?

I think a lot of people use Qgis for this

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Converting_map_data_between_formats
shows several tools, including qgis to do this.

So you choose your area in qgis, then export to xdf

Converting map data between formats - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Show threadspacebug
@thibaultmol oh I'm actually not in the process of doing something like editing the data, it's was just more of a technical question of how the data is stored.
Thanks anyway.
Apr 12 at 2:45pmWeb