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Hi All,

I'm having a bit of trouble running queries for areas that are within other areas. For example:

area
  [name="United States of America"]
  [border_type=national] -> .usa;
(
  area
    (area.usa)
    [admin_level=4]
);
out 100;

I would expect this to return a list of states in the US. However, what I actually get is a random hodgepodge of areas with admin_level=4, not just those in the US. Am I misunderstanding the area syntax?

asked 07 Mar '14, 04:15

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There are two different problems entangled:

Overpass API doesn't support to query for areas in areas. It is just not implemented, but you could get a similar result with the query

[timeout:3600];
area
  [name="United States of America"]
  [border_type=national] -> .usa;
(
  rel
    (area.usa)
    [admin_level=4];
);
out 100;

It is unfortunately really slow.

Second, there are a lot of relations (and thus areas) tagged with "admin_level=4" although they are not states. One example is relation 80297 which is a park somewhere in Ohio.

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answered 07 Mar '14, 10:03

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Roland Olbricht
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accept rate: 36%

Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to search for areas inside other areas. See this ticket on github. :/

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answered 07 Mar '14, 08:49

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