[OSM-dev] XAPI

[Paul Hartmann]

On 07.08.2017 18:08, Simon Poole wrote:
> There are multiple reasons why this is not going to work, not the least
> that there have been no public native XAPI servers available for a very
> long time.
>
> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi

The new query system is Overpass API, which has basically superseded 
XAPI. It is a fairly simple task to extract the data for a limited 
region. However, overall there are about 800,000 objects tagged 
amanity=school in the database, so this is too much to handle for 
Overpass API in a single request.

If you are determined, you can split the world into several regions and 
download the list of schools for each separately. (Make sure to increase 
the timeout parameter, the default is somewhat low.)

Paul