[OSM-dev] Xapi alternative

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Sat Jan 29 09:46:33 GMT 2011


Mitja Kleider wrote:
 > Hi Antoine,
 >
 > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:11:11 +0100, Antoine Pichon
 > <antoine.pich at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> I am building an application that needs to access osm poi database. Ex
 >> : Extract all the banks (or any orther amenity)  of a given area. I
 >> didn't find this possibility (amenity filtering) in basic API but only
 >> in xapi
 >>
 >> 1/ is there any other possibility instead of xapi to do that ?
 >
 > Andy already mentioned the new XAPI implementation.
 >
 > Last summer I wrote a POI API [1]. The wiki pages should contain setup
 > information and query examples. If you have questions, feel free to
 > ask.
 >
 > There is a (weak) demonstration server with data covering a tiny area
 > at [2]. You probably want to do something like [3] or [4].
 >
 >
 > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/POI_tools
 > [2] http://78.47.225.27/
 > [3]
 > 
http://78.47.225.27/static/examples/map.html?key=amenity&value=bank&zoom=15&lat=51.53318&lon=9.93624&lang=en
 > [4]
 > 
http://78.47.225.27/static/examples/list.html?type=relation&osm_id=191361&key=amenity&value=bank&lang=en

Can you elaborate on how to do bbox queries with this?

Regards,
Maarten



More information about the dev mailing list