Need Help: Exporting A City As Roads Only : QGIS

parambyte · 2017-10-10T12:53:08.000Z

Hello! for an art project I need to export a city as roads only.
I managed to download the entire country from Geofabrik as a .OSM file.
How do I extract the city only in QGIS?

Two months I had managed to extract a city using QGIS but I seem to have completely forgotten the process and it just doesn’t work any more.

SomeoneElse · 2017-10-10T13:50:49.000Z

I’d use osmconvert and osmfilter - see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmfilter .

stephan75 · 2017-10-10T17:28:37.000Z

Maybe you have used the QuickOSM plugin inside QGIS?

and do a query there for “highway=* in XXXX” … where XXXX is the name of your city.

parambyte · 2017-10-11T03:37:53.000Z

Thanks. Let me try these options.