[OSM-talk] Overpass API: new version 0.7.2

[Roland Olbricht]

Dear all,

a new version of Overpass API, version 0.7.2 has been released and deployed on
http://overpass-api.de/
and
http://overpass.osm.rambler.ru/

Details of the improvements are listed on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/versions#Overpass_API_v0.7.2

In general, thing are getting faster, and areas are now almost ubiquious. This 
lets the POI inspection tool
http://overpass.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/
show more complete results.

One interesting thing for end users might be that is now easy to produce a 
list of all streets in a city or other area. For example, for Grenoble in 
France just call

http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=area[name="Grenoble"];way(area)
[highway][name];out;

save the result in a file e.g. streets.osm and filter them with

grep '<tag k="name"' <streets.osm | sort | uniq | awk '{ s=substr($0,22); 
print substr(s,1,index(s,"\"")-1); }' >streets.txt

(both the URL and the command line in one line).

Happy querying,

Roland