On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Awesome. That seems to be what I'm looking for for the time being. > - Download a planet extract, put it in a local DB, and use it for your > searches. This I might do later. Thanks much, Tom > > Cheers, > -- > Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> > > Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta > compleja. > -- Director of Technology - The New Hanoian www.newhanoian.com - [email protected] +84 904 343 601 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
