[OSM-dev] Basic API Usage

[Tom Hughes]

On 13/08/2021 13:41, Julius Hamilton wrote:

> Could someone please provide a simple example of using the OSM API to 
> search for a venue in a local area, for example, "computer store" in 
> "New York", and returning the results as text data, for example a list 
> of locations and their addresses?

That's not something the main API offers.

The API is not a google like API that targets consumers, it's
an API that is targeted at support map editing.

You probably want to look at https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org
which has an API you can use.

Tom

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