[talk-au] Overpass question

[Andrew Davidson]

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).