Hi Dan,<br><br>You should have a look at XAPI: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI</a><br><br>--Ciprian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Dan Yamins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dyamins@gmail.com">dyamins@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I'm trying to determine whether the open Street map API can be used to extract lists of large high-level geographic features -- e.g. US states, counties, or postal codes -- within a given bounding box. <br>
<br>As far as I can tell by looking here: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Places" target="_blank"> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features </a> it seems like the OSM data contains information on all the types of entities I care about. <br>
<br>On the other hand, the API described here: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6</a> describes how to get data within a given bounding box. However, this seems to return _all_ points and ways within the bounding box, and as a result, the largest boxes I can use is much smaller than what I need. <br>
<br>What I would like to do is to be able to limit the request to only return lists of features of a particular type, e.g. county, state or posal code -- and, consequently, be able to query much larger regions. <br><br>
Is the OSM api capable of this? If so, is there a place I can read about how to do it? If not, could someone point me to a project that might give this sort of capability? (I'm mostly interest in US data).<br><br>
Thanks!<br><font color="#888888">Dan<br><br><br><br>
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