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

[Grégory Bataille]

that's exactly what I had suspected at some point, but I did not make it
work then either, let me retry that once I'm fully awaken and I'll get back
to you. Thanks for the quick answer.


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> Ref is a reference to an object ID, not a ref tag. Instead of
> /api/0.6/relation[ref=2202120] you want /api/0.6/relation/2202120.
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> I’m not 100% sure if the overpass compatibility layer will correctly
> handle the latter syntax.
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> *From:* Grégory Bataille [mailto:gbataille.dev at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 29, 2013 4:42 AM
> *To:* dev at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* [OSM-dev] Problem with XAPI and ref based search
>
>
>
> 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:
>
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> http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[boundary=administrative][admin_level=2][name=France]
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>
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> 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>
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> <member type="relation" ref="2627308" role="outer"></member>
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> <member type="relation" ref="2177258" role="outer"></member>
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>
>
> 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]
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> won't return anything. I have been spending a fair amount of time on this
> and I can't figure it out.
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>
>
> Would you please be able to point me in the right direction?
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>
>
> thanks.
>
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