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Hi,

I'm new to openstreetmaps, so pardon for the basic question. How do I extract a list of every Tesco in the UK with all relevant tags associated with each?

The long term aim is to automate this process so I can have it all put into a DB. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

asked 01 Aug '16, 14:02

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In general the easiest way is to use Overpass or Overpass-Turbo. This example shows a suitable query using Overpass-Turbo. Both approaches allow a variety of output methods (such as Geojson or CSV).

The alternative is to start with a complete extract of a given country and use similar filters to obtain the same information. The most useful tools for this are osmconvert and osmfilter.

You may need to consider a couple of things about such data:

  • Convenience stores associated with petrol stations will often be mapped separately (they have different opening hours, food hygiene inspections etc), and this may lead to double counting for your purposes.
  • Beware of just searching for things like 'Tesco': you will find lots of bus stops and parking areas.
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answered 01 Aug '16, 18:34

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Thank you for this explanation, it's very useful. just out of curiosity, I can see a Tesco supermarket that I know of in Kent which appears on OSM but not in the search, could you explain why? https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.39486/0.49119

(02 Aug '16, 10:47) scass
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Yes, very straightforward, each pair of lines should have contain one which starts with way not node. With overpass one needs to query both things mapped as a point (node) and as areas (ways). The corrected query is here: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/hDn . This ups the number of results from under 1000 to nigh on 2000

(02 Aug '16, 12:15) SK53 ♦
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