[talk-au] Overpass question

Bob Cameron bob3bob3 at skymesh.com.au
Sat Nov 4 22:16:26 UTC 2023


Thanks Andrew

Finally got around to trying this, works a treat!

Will also create a POI for the Garmin so I can be alerted if I drive 
past a parking area with data lacking. ie same way I can action fix-me's 
(with a verbal/recorded/georef'd remark). Handy to also be able to 
ignore objects that are data complete.

Cheers

On 17/10/23 18:04, Andrew Davidson wrote:
> On 17/10/23 04:58, Bob Cameron wrote:> Ways only? Because the output 
> data/list format is different. Nodes
>> are arranged by objects per co-ordinate, whereas ways are by an ID
>> that includes a nodes list, with a separate co-ordinate lookup table
>> for those nodes. My entire workflow is co-ordinate based, Bing etc
>> overhead, geoencoded ground level photos, plus an audio/voice
>> annotation, so I need a list of objects by that key. On top of that I
>> use simple tools to filter the list for specific tags, most often
>> informal=* being missing.
>
> Don't recurse down from your search results "(._;>;);", rather use out 
> center; eg: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1C3T This will return a lat 
> and lon that is the centre of the bounding box (which will mostly be 
> OK except for the usual doughnut and snake cases).



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