Andrew, I think curl interprets [] as a range specifier. It expects something like [1-100] or [a-w]. You might have to escape those characters. Not a curl expert so I can say for sure how to do that.
Mike On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Salzberg <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks for the responses. I'm actually using bash on my mac here > (should've said that originally), so working with curl (should i be?) > > I'm definitely communicating with overpass - thanks for the > http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter - but can't seem to send a script > succesfully. > > Even the simple sample taken directly from the tutorial page > > curl --request GET " > http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=node[name=\"Gielgen\"];out;"; > > yields: > > curl: (3) [globbing] error: bad range specification after pos 50 > > but i'm acutally more interested in sending a file then storing the output > (as your examples through wget do) > > Andrew > > > > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> wget -O "PT.osm" --post-file="PT.overpass" " >> http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter"; >> >> should do the trick. I used it on Windows, so maybe the parameters for >> wget are different on Linux, not sure. >> >> >> Jo >> >> 2013/5/17 Andrew Salzberg <[email protected]> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> just trying out the overpass API - very happily able to build scripts >>> here in overpass turbo that run great (http://overpass-turbo.eu/) but >>> wanted to take the next step and a) write a script in text file and b) send >>> a request via bash so that ultimately I can write a script to loop this for >>> a few cases. >>> >>> I'm basically an API newb (not just an OSM API newb) so I'm able to do >>> things like write a GET request but I'm not sure what the actual address I >>> should be putting in my request to overpass is? Try as I might I can't find >>> it in here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API I have >>> working .txt file with an <osm_script> in it that I'd like to send via bash >>> to overpass... if that makes sense. >>> >>> any help much appreciated. >>> >>> Andrew >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> newbies mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> newbies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > >
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