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**First of all: XAPI does not support JSON at all. The follow answer will help you to create an equivalent Overpass XML / QL query which comes with JSON output. Use it as a replacement of your current XAPI query.** If you prepend your XAPI query with "debug=", you can see the actual Overpass XML representation of the XAPI query. We use this as a starting point to create an equivalent query which returns JSON instead of XML. BTW: Internally, your XAPI query is converted into exactly this format before is it being executed by overpass api. http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?debug=*[maxspeed=][bbox=-106.631425,52.078132,-106.566537,52.146866] Result: <query type="node"> <bbox-query s="52.078132" n="52.146866" w="-106.631425" e="-106.566537"/> <has-kv k="maxspeed" v=""/> </query> <union> <item/> <query type="way"> <bbox-query s="52.078132" n="52.146866" w="-106.631425" e="-106.566537"/> <has-kv k="maxspeed" v=""/> </query> <recurse type="way-node"/> </union> <print/> <query type="relation"> <bbox-query s="52.078132" n="52.146866" w="-106.631425" e="-106.566537"/> <has-kv k="maxspeed" v=""/> </query> <print/> ~~Simply embed this into~~ Now, we need to tell Overpass API to return the result in JSON format. This can be achieved by adding an osm-script header with a dedicated output attribute: <osm-script output="json"> ... </osm-script> ~~and you'll~~ If you run this query, you will get exactly the same date as per your XAPI ~~request~~ query, now with JSON format output. Try this in ~~JSON format:~~ overpass turbo. http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6nr ~~Or try~~ If you favor Overpass QL format, ~~which~~ you can ~~get in overpass turbo,~~ easily convert your Overpass XML query by clicking on Export -> Query -> Overpass ~~QL:~~ QL in overpass turbo. That's how this would look like. [out:json] ; node (52.078132,-106.631425,52.146866,-106.566537) ["maxspeed"]; ( ._; way (52.078132,-106.631425,52.146866,-106.566537) ["maxspeed"]; node(w); ); out; relation (52.078132,-106.631425,52.146866,-106.566537) ["maxspeed"]; out;