Re: [OSM-dev] How to reference specific points of interests in OSM data

Use the Overpass API to accomplish what you want to do. It may help to add as much of the relevant data as possible to OSM to make selection afterwards easier/more specific. With Overpass you can limit the search geographically and based on tags or based on membership of relations. Polyglot 2

Re: [OSM-dev] How to reference specific points of interests in OSM data

Remember location and use the closest result? 2014-03-21 21:57 GMT+01:00 Sachin Dole : > Hello, > > I am fairly new to OSM and am figuring out how to use this in my > application. I want to be able to add additional metadata to certain places > such as hotels, airports, car rental agencies etc.

[OSM-dev] How to reference specific points of interests in OSM data

Hello, I am fairly new to OSM and am figuring out how to use this in my application. I want to be able to add additional metadata to certain places such as hotels, airports, car rental agencies etc. I am planning to do this additional metadata in my own database. However, I read on this page

Re: [OSM-dev] new on osm

Thank you, yes, if Overpass is faster, I would rather have Overpass. Yes, having the compatibility layer option is great! Off-topic: I am happy to report that my experimental nominatim install and upload of data (200 megs - only San Fransisco) to Amazon EC2 worked great for me. I followed http://

Re: [OSM-dev] new on osm

Sachin Dole wrote: @Simone, would you suggest Overpass or XAPI for the second question asked by the OP? (apologies for interrupting but) both is an option: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/XAPI_Compatibility_Layer Cheers, Andy ___

Re: [OSM-dev] new on osm

Hi Sachin, Overpass is usually faster and - if you need it - has more features. Read the Overpass-API documentation for more details, or play around with overpass-turbo (http://www.overpass-turbo.eu) which is a frontend to overpass. regards Peter Am 21.03.2014 16:20, schrieb Sachin Dole: > Hello,

Re: [OSM-dev] new on osm

Hello, @Simone, would you suggest Overpass or XAPI for the second question asked by the OP? I am also a newbie and at this very moment I am trying out OSM Nominatim install on Amazon EC2. I previously was using Mapquest's open/OSM data, but that seems to be old and unmaintained! I would love to kn

Re: [OSM-dev] new on osm

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Giuseppe Ricci wrote: Hi Giuseppe, > But I want to understand if osm's data permit to implement my idea. > My first question is: if I have some points of interest and I want to show > these on an open street map is it possible? For example with google map > there

[OSM-dev] new on osm

Hi all, I'm new on open street map. I'm a PHP developer and I want to realize an idea using osm's data. But I want to understand if osm's data permit to implement my idea. My first question is: if I have some points of interest and I want to show these on an open street map is it possible? For exa