On Wed, January 21, 2009 09:04, Tom Lancaster wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to get the set of lat/long points that make up a
> street, in order to be able to highlight that street in search
> results, or to find points that are near to it. Is there something in
> the OSM API to help with this?

I think you can either:

- Use the OSMXAPI to query a bbox, filtered by the "name" tag. If you
haven't, please check the wiki for info on OSMXAPI.
- Download a planet extract, put it in a local DB, and use it for your
searches.

Cheers,
-- 
Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es>

Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta
compleja.

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