that was it - thanks! On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Mike Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > >
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