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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:49:45 JST Børge

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   • Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS

   @amapanda Cool! What does the different colors indicate?

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     Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS (amapanda@en.osm.town)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:49:47 JST Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS

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     Here's the top 1000 longest roads in Europe (connected OSM `highway`'s with the same `name` tag). Shortest is ~53 km long. (lots hidden behind others).

     This shows some clear regional differences, which might have more with how data is mapped in #OpenStreetMap, but might also reflect how different cultures *name* roads.

     #OSM #geo #map #europe

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     Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS (amapanda@en.osm.town)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:49:48 JST Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS

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     The second-longest road in Europe is at 667 km from Moscow to St. Petersburg «Нева» which is the M-11 motorway. No, I don't know why it's called Нева in OSM. Wikipedia tells me that's a river… 🤔

     #OpenStreetMap #OSM #geo

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     Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS (amapanda@en.osm.town)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:49:50 JST Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS

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     • Geofabrik

     I calculated this “longest road” from #OpenStreetMap @geofabrik Europe extract.

     I define “a road” here as a continuous sequence of OSM ways with a `highway` tag & the same `name` tag. `osm-lump-ways` generates this with one simple command:

     osm-lump-ways -i europe-latest.osm.pbf -o euro-roads.geojson -f highway -f name -g name --split-into-single-paths --min-length-m 10000 --split-into-single-paths-by crow_flies

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     Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS (amapanda@en.osm.town)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:49:51 JST Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS

     All roads used to lead to Rome, now the longest road in Europe avoids it. 🤣

     The longest road¹ in Europe in #OpenStreetMap is the Autostrada Adriatica in Italy, at 774 km. It goes from Bologna to Taranto, and avoids Rome as much as possible by going along the Adriatic Coast of Italy.

     ¹ (ah, but how do we define “a road” 😉 🧵)

     #OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat #maps #map #geo #gis