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TimothyOilypants t1_j7kpuhw wrote

Reply to comment by bubbastars in Roads of Maine by bubbastars

Why use OSM and not the MDOT data available through MEGIS?

OSM kinda sucks...

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bubbastars OP t1_j7kvc07 wrote

To be honest, because I'm just dipping my toes into GIS. It's not my strong suit. I built this using R and a package that queries OSM, since R is my forte and the package made the data easily accessible.

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TimothyOilypants t1_j7kw7os wrote

If you haven't already give qGIS a look.

https://qgis.org/en/site/

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As you may already know, Maine has a pretty robust data catalogue. You can add REST connections directly in qGIS.

https://www.maine.gov/geolib/catalog.html

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bubbastars OP t1_j7kxehv wrote

Would you mind pointing me to the roads dataset? The only ones I can find on there besides public projects (which doesn't have every road) are missing line features.

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ppitm t1_j7my884 wrote

Look for the E911 dataset. That is the best source for roads.

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