[OSM-dev] Streetname Lookup

[Tom Lancaster]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega
<ivan at sanchezortega.es> wrote:
>
> On Wed, January 21, 2009 09:04, Tom Lancaster wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to get the set of lat/long points that make up a
>> street, in order to be able to highlight that street in search
>> results, or to find points that are near to it. Is there something in
>> the OSM API to help with this?
>
> I think you can either:
>
> - Use the OSMXAPI to query a bbox, filtered by the "name" tag. If you
> haven't, please check the wiki for info on OSMXAPI.

Awesome. That seems to be what I'm looking for for the time being.

> - Download a planet extract, put it in a local DB, and use it for your
> searches.

This I might do later.

Thanks much,

Tom
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
>
> Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta
> compleja.
>



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