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Overpass turbo: Finding capitals of relations

I'm looking for a way to grab the capital of a relation, for which I have the OSM ID.

I can print out the relation like this:

[out:json];
relation(8654);
out body;

and I have the data (node with "role": "admin_centre"), however I would then need to parse the JSON myself which is:

a waste of bandwidth for everyone involved.
needless processing on my side
I would then need to make another query to OSM to get data for the node

What I need is the data found here https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/26761400 , but in JSON format and through the API. I don't have the OSM ID of the node, only the relation.

So I would like to know if there is a way to get just the node data.

Thanks!

admin_centre relations

asked 14 Jan '19, 19:55

ianare
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accept rate: 0%

edited 14 Jan '19, 19:56

One Answer:

2	You need a recurse filter: `[out:json]; relation(8654); node(r:"admin_centre"); out body;` Here's a demo. answered 15 Jan '19, 01:37 maxerickson 12.7k●10●83●176 accept rate: 32% Perfect, thank you! I had seen the recurse filter in the docs but did not understand it. (15 Jan '19, 09:44) ianare