How to read road network data off a map in MATLAB?

Hello everyone,

I am working on Electric vehicle charging station location and plannimng problem. The idea is, that given any city map, we should be able to plan and size the Electric vehicle charging stations locations on a map. For the same, I want to be able to input the city map via google, OpenStreet etc, and my code should be able to read the road network details, like nodes, distance, width, unidirectional or bidirectional road etc.

To be honest, I have made zero progress in that. Using geoplot function, I can read the location, and I can also see the road layout, but Im not able to get anything more out of it.

I already read the document on roadprops,but it isnt useful. I figured its something to do with image processing.

Any help or an example or links would be appreciated

Answer 1

[Madheswaran]

Hi Siddhartha,

If you have an OpenStreetMap file (.osm or .osm.pbf) for your location, you can directly read the file into a MATLAB table using the `readgeotable` function.

For more detailed information, please refer to the following documentations:

1. Read data from OpenStreetMap Files: https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/map/read-data-from-openstreetmap-files.html
2. List of Supported formats for `readgeotable`: https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/map/ref/readgeotable.html

Hope it helps!