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Hello, I use the Overpass-API to get cities from some area. As an example I use this simple query: So I get a lot of villages/cities/towns/metropolises which starts with "A" which is fine so far. What I need now are - besides the information the query above delivers in the node - all relation-ids to that found cities. How can it be done? Can the query above be modified to deliever all relation-ids as well? It would avoid sending a query for every city I got. |
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In principle, it is possible to get with this request all city boundaries in bavaria. In detail, there are two things to consider: First, it also returns cities that have a common boundary with bavaria, although they are actually outside bavaria. This is a side effect of the query semantics I have not thought about: Ways are considered inside an area if they are completely on the border (which makes sense), and relations are considered inside if one or more of its elements are inside (which also makes sense on its own), but both together is a little bit odd. Second, there is no connection between the place nodes and the boundary relations. In some cases, they may be contained as members in the boundary relations, but not always. edit: Ahh, now I understand your question better. This query finds all place nodes (I added those of type town to cover more places) and for each the area it belongs to. To simplify testing, I have restricted these again to "A..". Feel free to remove that condition, but the query then runs for several minutes. You can in principle deduce the relation ids from the area ids: just substract 3.6 billion. However, if you want to query for postcodes and so on afterwards, it is likely that you anyway still need the area and not the relation. I've written about the issue in this forum thread. 1
Thanks for your reply. When looking at: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=97345357 or http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=3676853724 it seems I always get somewhere an "relation" for a city: Munich: 62428 Ingolstadt: 62381 I need that to query all postcodes or streets for example via overpass to be used in the area-part of the request. So I have nodes (cities) and need the relations like shown in nominatim - how would you do that with overpass?
(15 Feb '13, 14:45)
wuschba
Hello wuschba, your aims seem to be a bit more than an FAQ for this site .. come to forum.openstreetmap.org, there is even a very active German sub forum if my assumption is right and you are from there. If you get a solution for your aims, you can add it as an overpassAPI example in the collection in the OSM wiki, so others can benefit, too.
(15 Feb '13, 15:31)
stephan75
Hi Stephan, thanks for your reply. So you suggest discussing this in "users:Germany" on forum.openstreetmal.org?! Or is it more something for "Developers"?
(15 Feb '13, 17:01)
wuschba
I suggest "users:Germany".
(15 Feb '13, 18:31)
Roland Olbricht
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