Determining if a given path goes through a park?

Question

Is there a way to determine if a given path (e.g. footway) is part of/inside a park or a green space.

Answer 1

Yes but you will have to do the required computation yourself. Import the OSM data into a spatial database (e.g. into PostGIS using osm2pgsql) and then if you want to know whether way #123 goes through a park you could write something like

select count(*) from planet_osm_polygon where leisure='park' and st_intersects(way, (select way from planet_osm_line where osm_id=123);

This returns the number of parks that the way leads through. Of course more complex queries are possible, e.g. find out what percentage of the way lies in a park, or whether a park lies in the vicinity of the way.

There is no ready-made online service that does such computations for you.

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