[OSM-dev] Search API

Andy Street mail at andystreet.me.uk
Thu Mar 1 15:23:59 GMT 2007


On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:12:18 +0000 (GMT)
Nick Burch <openstreetmap at gagravarr.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Andy Street wrote:
> > Is there a public API for search queries? I've looked at the REST
> > page on the wiki but that only seems to deal with fetching map data
> > when you know the id or location of the item you require.
> 
> The basic API doesn't support very complex searching. However, it's
> easy to run your own from planet.osm:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Where_Are_They

Thanks Nick, this could well do what I'm after. I followed the link in
the wiki page[1] but it 404s. :(

Regards,

Andy

[1] http://gagravarr.org/code/where_is_it.py




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