[OSM-newbies] using the Overpass API

[Mike Thompson]

Andrew,

I think curl interprets [] as a range specifier.  It expects something like
[1-100] or [a-w].  You might have to escape those characters.  Not a curl
expert so I can say for sure how to do that.

Mike


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Salzberg <andrew.salzberg at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> thanks for the responses. I'm actually using bash on my mac here
> (should've said that originally), so working with curl (should i be?)
>
> I'm definitely communicating with overpass - thanks for the
> http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter - but can't seem to send a script
> succesfully.
>
> Even the simple sample taken directly from the tutorial page
>
> curl --request GET "
> http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=node[name=\"Gielgen\"];out;"
>
> yields:
>
> curl: (3) [globbing] error: bad range specification after pos 50
>
> but i'm acutally more interested in sending a file then storing the output
> (as your examples through wget do)
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> wget  -O "PT.osm" --post-file="PT.overpass" "
>> http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter"
>>
>> should do the trick. I used it on Windows, so maybe the parameters for
>> wget are different on Linux, not sure.
>>
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> 2013/5/17 Andrew Salzberg <andrew.salzberg at gmail.com>
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> just trying out the overpass API - very happily able to build scripts
>>> here in overpass turbo that run great (http://overpass-turbo.eu/) but
>>> wanted to take the next step and a) write a script in text file and b) send
>>> a request via bash so that ultimately I can write a script to loop this for
>>> a few cases.
>>>
>>> I'm basically an API newb (not just an OSM API newb) so I'm able to do
>>> things like write a GET request but I'm not sure what the actual address I
>>> should be putting in my request to overpass is? Try as I might I can't find
>>> it in here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API I have
>>> working .txt file with an <osm_script> in it that I'd like to send via bash
>>> to overpass... if that makes sense.
>>>
>>> any help much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Andrew
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