Overpass: restrict query to a manually-specified polygon

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I have a simple Overpass XML query, and I'd like to restrict it to search in a manually-specified polygon (NOT to an existing area in OSM). The documentation mentions how to select region by polygon but it doesn't tell me what to use instead of bbox-query to actually use that polygon.

(My use-case: selecting e.g. all the lighthouses in mainland Britain. There are few enough lighthouses that it's OK to query such a big area, but the coast of Britain is far too complex to try and load into the Overpass interpreter so I drew a simplified outline.)

Here is my bbox query, which easily gets all the lighthouses in mainland Britain, but with a couple of extras from Ireland and France:


 {{key=man_made}}
 {{value=lighthouse}}
 <osm-script output="json">
   <union>
     <query type="node">
       <has-kv k="{{key}}" v="{{value}}"/>
       <bbox-query w="-5.95459" s="49.95122" e="1.82373" n="58.66551"/>
     </query>
   </union>
   <print mode="body"/>
   <recurse type="down"/>
   <print mode="skeleton"/>
 </osm-script>

and here are my simplified coordinates, just manually drawn:

 "50.0180967424 -5.7508254114  49.8977876566 -5.1328981537  50.9082889044 1.3228155649  51.2810475111 1.664301681  52.7126227103 1.9570040662  56.1970031699 -2.3893465301  57.6095221438 -1.5614591643  58.6835117066 -2.929773005  58.7133813218 -5.2524570036  57.7202251635 -6.0343506269  57.7570511223 -6.4712911811  57.3685045845 -6.9082317353  56.9193570841 -5.9883568844  56.8188049116 -5.9653600131  56.7573982738 -6.2873162109  56.686249528 -6.253314109  56.664139806 -6.0750883566  56.5375494332 -5.9256086933  56.4296138149 -5.6036524955  56.3118053314 -5.712887634  56.1199894834 -5.6381478024  55.907881817 -5.7818782478  55.7496536432 -5.6783923271  55.2809219893 -5.8681165151  55.3136533443 -5.4829189213  55.7043273009 -5.4024298718  55.7852302943 -5.2299533373  55.5029632207 -4.7872635653  54.8893427316 -5.3161916046  54.5806438387 -4.9194955751  54.6405756493 -4.0858589914  53.7730926517 -3.2407239721  53.4764508768 -3.528184863  53.5003957724 -4.7815143475  51.8269681676 -5.5979032777  51.4093186674 -4.9712385355  51.1215308565 -4.4078151893  50.1847866289 -5.8106243369  50.0180967424 -5.7508254114"

Accepted Answer

It does tell you what to use, but not as you seem to expect. Overpass has two different query language formats: XML and its own language QL. The select region by polygon example query is written in QL but you seem to prefer the XML version. In that case just paste the code into the Overpass API convert form where you can convert between different formats. Converting the example query to XML will result in:

<osm-script>
  <union into="_">
    <polygon-query bounds="50.7 7.1 50.7 7.12 50.71 7.11" into="_"/>
    <recurse from="_" into="_" type="up"/>
  </union>
  <print from="_" limit="" mode="meta" order="id"/>
</osm-script>

Answer 2

Just to spell it out after @scai answered, here is exactly the Overpass XML that carries out my desired query:


{{key=man_made}}
{{value=lighthouse}}
<osm-script output="json">
  <union>
    <query type="node">
      <has-kv k="{{key}}" v="{{value}}"/>
      <polygon-query bounds="50.0180967424 -5.7508254114  49.8977876566 -5.1328981537  50.9082889044 1.3228155649  51.2810475111 1.664301681  52.7126227103 1.9570040662  56.1970031699 -2.3893465301  57.6095221438 -1.5614591643  58.6835117066 -2.929773005  58.7133813218 -5.2524570036  57.7202251635 -6.0343506269  57.7570511223 -6.4712911811  57.3685045845 -6.9082317353  56.9193570841 -5.9883568844  56.8188049116 -5.9653600131  56.7573982738 -6.2873162109  56.686249528 -6.253314109  56.664139806 -6.0750883566  56.5375494332 -5.9256086933  56.4296138149 -5.6036524955  56.3118053314 -5.712887634  56.1199894834 -5.6381478024  55.907881817 -5.7818782478  55.7496536432 -5.6783923271  55.2809219893 -5.8681165151  55.3136533443 -5.4829189213  55.7043273009 -5.4024298718  55.7852302943 -5.2299533373  55.5029632207 -4.7872635653  54.8893427316 -5.3161916046  54.5806438387 -4.9194955751  54.6405756493 -4.0858589914  53.7730926517 -3.2407239721  53.4764508768 -3.528184863  53.5003957724 -4.7815143475  51.8269681676 -5.5979032777  51.4093186674 -4.9712385355  51.1215308565 -4.4078151893  50.1847866289 -5.8106243369  50.0180967424 -5.7508254114"/>
    </query>
  </union>
  <print mode="body"/>
  <recurse type="down"/>
  <print mode="skeleton"/>
</osm-script>

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