[OSM-newbies] using the Overpass API

[Andrew Salzberg]

that was it - thanks!

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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