All the streets, on a wiki

Fremantle

Local history wikis often want to have a page for every street. All the streets! Every named road or street or path or laneway or mall. Some people say it's silly because there's nothing to be said about some of them. But that's okay, everything's silly.

First, find all named highways around a point:

[out:json];
wr["highway"]["name"](around:3000,{{center}});
out geom;

For example, within 3km of the middle of Fremantle.

Make sure it looks good, then get the names in plain text:

[out:csv(name)][timeout:25];
wr["highway"]["name"](around:4000,{{center}});
out body;
>;
out skel qt;

Save this to streets.txt and turn it into a wiki list with:

cat streets.txt | sort | uniq | sed 's/^/* [[/' | sed 's/$/]]/'
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