How to get Openstreetmap data in shapefile with QGIS

This tutorial will help you in the extraction of OpenStreetMap data and then in converting them into shape-files using QGIS. Let’s begin with an explanation of how to download data from the Open Source Mapping for a region of interest utilizing the QuickOSM plugin because it is an efficient way of importing relevant data into QGIS. In this tutorial you will discover the plugin and how to enter your query to get the correct data layers downloaded.

After you have gained your OSM data, it is then easy to follow the next course to transform these layers into shape files. I will explain the basic functions of QGIS that concerns data manipulation and output features to guarantee that you obtain a proper shapefile for the next steps of your work. At the end of this tutorial, the user will be in a position to easily download OSM data for GIS projects and be able to manage it.