Neat! Using only a rectangular bounding box probably wouldn't work that well for Canada, though. Anybody know how to use a border relation with Overpass in order to extract only data from Canada/a province/a town?
Harald. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Colin McGregor <colin.mc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is an odd use for Open Street Map data... One man in the UK > wanted to know "What are the most popular names for pubs in the United > Kingdom?". Using Open Street Map data he could find that out and he > explains how he did that here : > http://blog.mongodb.org/post/56876800071/the-most-popular-pub-names . > > For those not willing to read the entire article here is the answer he found: > > 1. The Red Lion > 2. The Royal Oak > 3. The Crown > 4. The White Hart > 5. The White Horse > > The process described could be easily adapted to any repeating > information anywhere, like most popular street name in Canada or... > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565 _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
