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Add reverse geocoding information to the overpass resulting set.

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I have a overpass query which returns lot of nodes. I would like to know whether there is a way to add reverse geocoding information to the resulting data set. Details of my case are not that important, but just for completness:

area[name="Česko"];(node[information="guidepost"](area););out;

in fact i do not need full reverse geocoding info for nodes, I only need relation of certain administrative level, so if this is possible to add into the result set, it would be great.

PS: I know that I can read the result set and then reverse geocode each individual node, but it seems very inefficient to me.

asked 19 Aug '14, 01:55

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edited 19 Aug '14, 10:55

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Please have a look at http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4EF

The foreach loop enables you to get the areas a node lies in right after each node.

answered 20 Aug '14, 08:04

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edited 20 Aug '14, 18:16

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To avoid retrieving the same area details many times, you could just return the area id in a first API call and retrieve the missing area details in a second query call for each distinct area id returned by the first query.

After the signpost node, you would just get the following detail from the first query:

<area id="3600435511"/> <area id="3600442466"/>

In a second query you could fetch the more details for those area ids: (area(3600435511);area(3600442466););out;

This could save some bandwidth on your end.

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4Fo

(20 Aug '14, 23:16) mmd
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Execllent idea!

On top of this, you could even avoid to ask for a list of ids:

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4FJ

(21 Aug '14, 05:03) Roland Olbricht

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Have a look for "batch geocoding" or "batch reverse geocoder" or similar on this FAQ site.

Or have a closer look at the OSM wiki about Search engines ... maybe there is a solution for your aim.

answered 19 Aug '14, 16:09

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For anyone arriving from a Google search:

area[name="Česko"];
node[information=guidepost][ele~"^1..$"](area)->.Posts;
.Posts is_in;
rel(pivot)[admin_level="6"];
out geom;
.Posts out center;

answered 23 Jul '22, 23:21

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Source code available on GitHub .