[OSM-talk] GeoJSON and TileMill

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi Martin.

Yes, thanks. Tried it out already (after getting similar information
from your github comment, I think), and it works.

great.
Thanks

Peter

Am 29.04.2013 09:46, schrieb Martin Raifer:
> Peter Wendorff wrote:
> 
>> I want to do some maps in TileMill and have a question.
>> As a data source for now I use GeoJSON exports from overpass-turbo,
>> which looks fine so far.
>> [...]
>> It looks like tags are recognized as one field by tilemill, not as
>> individual fields/columns, so that a selector by field is not sufficient.
>> Is there anything I could do or is geojson support that limited?
> 
> overpass turbo isn't producing a nested tag object in GeoJSON's
> properties anymore. Instead, the properites object is flattened and all
> tags are directly accessible.
> 
> This should make GeoJSON exported from OSM via overpass turbo more
> usable in various tools (TileMill, QuantumGIS, etc.). The details of the
> format are documented at [1].
> 
> Greetings,
> Martin / tyr_asd
> 
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_turbo/GeoJSON
> 
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