Nicosia's motorised segmented street network - automated.

- Using the boundary of Nicosia UMZ and 20km buffer, we downloaded and cleaned the street network from OSM on 4.12.2024 using Cityseer Python packages (https://github.com/benchmark-urbanism/cityseer-api/) release 4.17.0. After downloading the whole cleaned network, we created the motorised and the non-motorised network by extracting road/path classifications from the “highway” attribute.

- For the motorised network, we excluded road that has classification types like [footway, footway_green, footway_pedestrain, pedestrian, track, cycleway, steps] from the “highway” attribute that was generated by the cleaned network. Furthermore, we made sure that the new network is connected in QGIS and there are no network islands after the exclusion.

- For the unlinks, it was created using the Place syntax tool within QGIS. From create a segment map, and choosing the network as coming from road centreline.