[OSM-talk] planet.osm powered "where am I"

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Tuesday 25 Jul 2006 08:10, Nick Burch wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've knocked up a little REST service for querying planet.osm for where you
> happen to be near.
>
> If you give it your current lat+long, what you're interested in (places or
> roads), how far to look (in meters), and what format (xml or html), it'll
> find tagged nodes and segments, and tell you about them.

Tried it for 50.9N 1.4W where there should be plenty of data:

http://gagravarr.org/cgi-bin/where_am_i.py?lat=50.9+&long=-1.4&dist=2000
&roads=on&places=on

but got  nothing back. Which tags is it looking for?

Nick