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Hi, I have an 'way id' of my route. I want to extract all nodes which belongs to this specific route. I can make a query e.g.: http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/xxxyyzz In response I receive series of node reference id's. Then I need to make recursive lookup to search each single point to get GPS data. Do you know automatic tool to extract such data? I will provide way_id and in response get series of GPS coordinates. It is fair easy to write such tool but maybe you know readily available software.

asked 22 Dec '10, 18:24

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There is an API request that returns the way and all its nodes:

http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/xxxyyzz/full
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answered 22 Dec '10, 18:38

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You can download http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/xxxyyzz/full instead of http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/xxxyyzz/. This will contain all the nodes that are in this way, thus avoiding the need for further queries.

You can use something like

wget -q -O - http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/xxxyyzz/full | sed -ne 's/<node.*lat="\(.*\)" lon="\(.*\)" version.*/\1 \2/p'

to limit output to the latitude and longitude of the node. (And yes I know that parsing XML with regex is evil.)

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answered 22 Dec '10, 18:41

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