[talk-au] Searching for tags?

[Ben Kelley]

Thanks all. Perfect!

I just found one that we could see from the water (i.e. it seems like
there's a boat ramp over there somewhere) but we couldn't find on land.

 - Ben.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 10:14, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oops, it didn't show automatically, so click on the "Run" button!
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 09:13, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Adam beat me to it, but here you go: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1bKw
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Graeme
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 09:01, Adam Horan <ahoran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For super powered searching you need https://overpass-turbo.eu/
>>>
>>> On the bottom right of the wiki page is a link to overpass which will
>>> embed a simple query for the tag key-value.
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dslipway
>>>
>>> The query can be modified to search a wider area, but unfortunately
>>> overpass queries are not super simple (and I say this as a programmer of
>>> several years)
>>> Searching across a very large area will be slow, or might be stopped if
>>> too slow.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 09:47, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In our search for boat ramps around here we found that there are heaps
>>>> that Google doesn't know about. We found 3 yesterday that Google didn't
>>>> have. Of those OSM had 2 of 3 (and I found a 4th in OSM I didn't know
>>>> about).
>>>>
>>>> How can you search for a specific feature in OSM? If you search for
>>>> "slipway" you only find things with "slipway" in the name. You can't search
>>>> for "leisure=slipway" on the main map either.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some other way to search for particular features?
>>>>
>>>>  - Ben.
>>>>
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