[OSM-dev] Problem with XAPI and ref based search

[Grégory Bataille]

hello everybody,

I have been trying to use OSM data for a while. basically, first, I'd like
to get the admin boundaries of France.
I start by asking XAPI to give me the France admin_level 2 object like so:
http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[boundary=administrative][admin_level=2][name=France]

this returns me the object, which contains among other things:
<member type="relation" ref="79981" role="outer"></member>
<member type="relation" ref="2202120" role="outer"></member>
<member type="relation" ref="2627308" role="outer"></member>
<member type="relation" ref="2177258" role="outer"></member>

so I want to dig down into these relations of course to get to the details
(ways and nodes). But I can't:
http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[ref=2202120] or
http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?*[ref=2202120]
won't return anything. I have been spending a fair amount of time on this
and I can't figure it out.

Would you please be able to point me in the right direction?

thanks.
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