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I browsed around this site and a couples of other QGIS sites, and couldn't find solutions to my problems. However, I'm quite new to QGIS, so my question is possibly pretty naive.

I need to create map of a city, containing all the streets of the city (I already finished this using OpenStreetMap). Then, I have a list of addresses (around 2,000 addresses, in .csv format) that I need to locate in my city map. However, instead of geolocate them as points on the map, I need to highlight the street segments that each address belongs to. I currently face two problems:

  1. how to automatically tag the streets that contains at least a location in my address list? and
  2. how to select only the street segment with the location, not the entire street?

I'm using QGIS 2.18.15 on Mac.

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    If you've already been able to geolocate the addresses as points (if not, try GeoCoding plugin), you can use those points to do a spatial selection over the street segments layer. – Carlos MSF Mar 1 '18 at 12:42
  • Agree with @Carlos MSF, geocode them first (this will put the points near the segment), then spatial join them (by nearest feature). Finally, you can select the segments that spatially joined successfully. – artwork21 Mar 2 '18 at 13:23