Dear all, a new version of Overpass API, version 0.7.2 has been released and deployed on http://overpass-api.de/ and http://overpass.osm.rambler.ru/
Details of the improvements are listed on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/versions#Overpass_API_v0.7.2 In general, thing are getting faster, and areas are now almost ubiquious. This lets the POI inspection tool http://overpass.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ show more complete results. One interesting thing for end users might be that is now easy to produce a list of all streets in a city or other area. For example, for Grenoble in France just call http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=area[name="Grenoble"];way(area) [highway][name];out; save the result in a file e.g. streets.osm and filter them with grep '<tag k="name"' <streets.osm | sort | uniq | awk '{ s=substr($0,22); print substr(s,1,index(s,"\"")-1); }' >streets.txt (both the URL and the command line in one line). Happy querying, Roland _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
