[OSM-newbies] mass selection of features of a given type

[Ed Hillsman]

 > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Andrew Errington <
 > a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to create a file
 >
 > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:31:26 Ed Hillsman wrote:
 > > > If I export OSM data for an area, is there a tool that I can  
use to
 > > > extract data about all of the instances of just one type of  
feature
 > > > from it? What has happened is that our bicycle club has mapped  
all of
 > > > the bicycle parking on our university campus. The campus planning
 > > > department found out about it and wants to give the locations and
 > > > capacities to one of their consultants to help with updating the
 > > > campus plan. We would of course like to give it to them, since  
it will
 > > > help get additional bike parking on campus.
 > >
 > >
 > Do you know XAPI :
 > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi
 >
 > With the appropriate URL, bounding box and tag predicates, you  
receive
 > directly your OSM file filtered for one tag.
 >
 > Pieren
Huge thanks for this. It worked pretty easily. I've made a small edit  
to the wiki to warn against including spaces in the values that define  
the bounding box (I accidentally included one and kept getting an  
error until I guessed that was the problem and removed it. This stuff  
is new to me, and I don't know the syntax). Really useful.
Thanks also, Andy, because what you sent will help us get more  
familiar with the database and how to work with it.
Ed Hillsman

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