What is the Most Common Street Name in Australia?
Outline/Structure of the Case Study
3 - 7 minutes: Open Street Map (OSM) data. An introduction on what data you can get from OSM and how you can access it using Python.
7 - 13 minutes: What is a street? Here I will introduce different OSM attributes. From these attributes I will define what a street is. For example, in OSM any kind of road, street or path is part of the Highway class of objects. This class includes many objects which are typically not considered streets, such as those of type escape - runaway truck ramps and arrester beds. I will define a street as a named public street or road that allows motorised vehicles.
13 - 20 minutes: What is a street name? Here I will develop a model that divides street names into three parts: the name, the type (e.g., street, road etc.) and an optional description (e.g., East, offramp etc.). For example, the street River Road West has the name River, type Road and a descriptor West. Once we have answered this question we can finally answer...
20 - 25 minutes: What is the most common street name in Australia? What is the most common street name in each state? In this section we will dive into our now clean data set of Australian streets names to see what we can find.
25 - 30 minutes: Conclusion + questions
Learning Outcome
- An understanding of OpenStreetMap and how to use python, in particular geopandas, with it
- Considerations when developing a naming model
- Good trivia questions
Target Audience
People interested in geospatial data, python or trivia
Prerequisites for Attendees
None (the Python parts of the talk will be more conceptual rather than full on coding)
Links
We counted literally every road in America. Here’s what we learned.: this is the article that inspired me to start this project. What caught my eye was how common plant names were - something that I felt sure wasn't the case in Australia - so I set out to find the most common street name (in the Sydney region the most common plant street name is Boronia)
What is the most common street name in America: an interesting 538 article discussing different methodologies
