Yeah, that all makes sense. I had spent a lot of time trying to limit the area I was searching against, and the result was a *429 Too Many Requests* error.
Thanks Bryce and Roland. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Roland Olbricht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Was unsure what the best practices for querying overpass were, and was >> wondering if someone could point me in a good direction. >> >> I'm trying to query Overpass for a small amount of data over many small, >> sparsely populated areas. Was wondering if it made more sense to run >> separate queries for the bounding box of each small area, or one query >> for the bounding box of all queries. The first approach sends more >> queries against smaller areas, the second approach sends only one query >> against a much larger area. >> > > In general, I would suggest to combine all areas with the union operator. > Or even, simpler, just concatenate the queries. Overpass can handle > multiple print statements. > > When your return time is below a few seconds, then it makes sense to > combine more requests. > > Best regards, > > Roland > >
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