[OSM-talk] Overpass API from JOSM does not honor bounding box anymore?

Mon Dec 26 16:36:36 UTC 2016

Hi Marteen
There were discussions recently on this subject  but I cant find the thread. This was probably on the Overpass discussion group.

As for the general Overpass API, It is now possible through JOSM to either use bbox or other outbounding methods to define the area to query. To implement this in JOSM, the syntax for bbox has been slightly modified with the [bbox:{{bbox}}] added to the header section of the query.
Try building a query with a key value, for example : "building"="yes"
When you click on Build a query, you wil see that the bbox definition looks like this.
[out:xml][timeout:25][bbox:{{bbox}}];
If you still have timeout problem using the syntax above, it migth be related to the size of the area to query. Then, select a smaller bbox or increase the timeout value.

Pierre 

      De : Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl>
 À : talk at openstreetmap.org; josm at openstreetmap.org 
 Envoyé le : lundi 26 décembre 2016 10h14
 Objet : [OSM-talk] Overpass API from JOSM does not honor bounding box anymore?

I'm trying the overpass API from JOSM and keep getting timeouts. 
According to the docs, the bounding box for the Overpass query would be 
set automatically when selecting an area in the map in the download 
screen, but I do not see that in the resulting query that gets logged.

Trying the example query from the wiki give me this error (afer a few 
minutes):
2016-12-26 16:02:59.165 SEVERE: IO Exception - <html>Failed to upload 
data to or download data 
from<br>'https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=%28+node%5Bshop%5D%3B%0Away%5Bshop%5D%3B%3E%3B%0Arel%5Bshop%5D%3B%3E%3B%29%3B%0A%28._%3Brel%28bn%29%3B%29%3B%0A%28._%3Brel%28bw%29%3B%29%3B%0A%28._%3Brel%28br%29%3B%29%3B%0Aout+meta%3B'<br>due 
to a problem with transferring data.<br>Details (untranslated): Read 
timed out</html>

I do not see a bounding box in there.

If I download without a query there is a proper bbox in the API GET.

Is there something I should do to get the query to take the bbox?

Regards,
Maarten

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