OpenStreetMap Python API Bounding Box Request not Returned as Python Dictionary

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Apologies if this is a dense question I am green with OSM.

When I make an API bounding box call like below:

import overpass

# bounding box coordinates
min_long = min(longs)
min_lat = min(lats)
max_long = max(longs)
max_lat = max(lats)

# query overpass within OpenStreetMap
api = overpass.API()
map_query = overpass.MapQuery(min_lat,min_long,max_lat,max_long)
response = api.Get(map_query)

The output is not wrapped in a Python dictionary like here. The response appears to be xml.

Anybody have an idea of what is going on here? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

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Overpass API supports different file formats (currently XML, JSON and CSV). According to a quick search you seem to be using Overpass API python wrapper. The README explains that you can call Get() with a responseformat parameter for choosing the file format. So try calling api.Get(map_query, responseformat="json").

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answered 16 Feb '16, 16:55

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I've seen that. Interestingly though, I keep getting the error TypeError: Get() got an unexpected keyword argument 'responseformat' for any format type.

(16 Feb '16, 18:16) jlgutenson

I just tried the example from the README with the latest version on GitHub and it works. It even uses "geojson" as default file format. But specifying responseformat="json" or responseformat="xml" also works fine.

(16 Feb '16, 18:26) scai ♦

Interesting @scai, are you using version 0.3.1 as well? Sounds like something with my installation is off.:-/

(16 Feb '16, 18:34) jlgutenson

I'm using the master branch which seems to be 0.3.1 according to __init__.py.

(16 Feb '16, 18:35) scai ♦

Answer 2

1	Turns out the pip installation of the Python Overpass API is different than the current version on github. If anyone else encounters this problem, just install the github version instead. permanent link answered 16 Feb '16, 19:29 jlgutenson 26●1●1●3 accept rate: 0%

OpenStreetMap Python API Bounding Box Request not Returned as Python Dictionary

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