[OSM-talk] features of a given type within bounding box

[Richard Weait]

[you sent direct, rather than to the list.  I fix. ;-)]
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Dan Yamins <dyamins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > /node[place=postal_code][bbox=W,S,E,N]
>>
>> Try it.  You should find that it works, but that zip code coverage is
>> uneven.
>>
>
> Hm ... either it's not working, or zip code coverage is so uneven that there
> really aren't any in the Northeastern US ... ?
>
> For instance:
>
> /node[place=postal_code][bbox=-85,40,-72,47]
>
> yields no results.  Am I doing something wrong?  Or is US zip code coverage
> essentially nil?

Try
http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.6/node[addr:postcode][bbox=-85,40,-72,47]

Works like a champ.  zip codes got added to the Karlsruhe Schema for
addressing data.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_schema