[OSM-dev] New Overpass API version 0.7.57

[Roland Olbricht]

Hello everybody,

a new version of the Overpass API has just been released and deployed.

Now closed ways are directly treated as areas instead of first
calculating areas from them. This resolves many cases where no areas was
created for a closed way because it did not match the ruleset. Now
things are simplified, every closed is available as area.

For example, the query feature on the main page now will also find the
building if you click in a building. Similarly, landuse bearing ways are
now picked up.

See
https://dev.overpass-api.de/blog/way_based_areas.html
for the details.

Best regards,

Roland