<div dir="ltr">that's exactly what I had suspected at some point, but I did not make it work then either, let me retry that once I'm fully awaken and I'll get back to you. Thanks for the quick answer.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ref is a reference to an object ID, not a ref tag. Instead of /api/0.6/relation[ref=2202120] you want /api/0.6/relation/2202120.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m not 100% sure if the overpass compatibility layer will correctly handle the latter syntax.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt">
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Grégory Bataille [mailto:<a href="mailto:gbataille.dev@gmail.com" target="_blank">gbataille.dev@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 29, 2013 4:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">dev@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [OSM-dev] Problem with XAPI and ref based search<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">hello everybody,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have been trying to use OSM data for a while. basically, first, I'd like to get the admin boundaries of France.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I start by asking XAPI to give me the France admin_level 2 object like so:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation%5bboundary=administrative%5d%5badmin_level=2%5d%5bname=France%5d" target="_blank">http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[boundary=administrative][admin_level=2][name=France]</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">this returns me the object, which contains among other things:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><member type="relation" ref="79981" role="outer"></member><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><member type="relation" ref="2202120" role="outer"></member><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><member type="relation" ref="2627308" role="outer"></member><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><member type="relation" ref="2177258" role="outer"></member><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">so I want to dig down into these relations of course to get to the details (ways and nodes). But I can't:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation%5bref=2202120%5d" target="_blank">http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[ref=2202120]</a> or<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?*%5bref=2202120%5d" target="_blank">http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?*[ref=2202120]</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">won't return anything. I have been spending a fair amount of time on this and I can't figure it out.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Would you please be able to point me in the right direction?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">thanks.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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