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Currently I am using data for some regions (provinces) of the Netherlands via this link: https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/netherlands.html

However, when I download the shape files (.shp.zip) I cannot find the metadata that explains the variables to me. See the picture attached as example. What does 'transport' mean? or 'traffic'? Can someone tell me where to find this?

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  • When you open any of those shapefiles look at what is displayed and the attributes. What software are you using?
    – Pointdump
    Commented May 20 at 16:09
  • QGIS 3.16 Hannover
    – Sem20112001
    Commented May 20 at 20:03
  • Drag-n-Drop one of those shapefiles into QGIS. Right-Click on its name and select Open Attribute Table.
    – Pointdump
    Commented May 20 at 20:56

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Read the documentation https://download.geofabrik.de/technical.html. Follow the link from the "Shape files" section https://download.geofabrik.de/osm-data-in-gis-formats-free.pdf

The document describes in detail what OSM features are included in each shapefile. For example the beginning of the section "transport".

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You may have lost some files. I tried it and the files exist.

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