Cool. Everything fits now. I was missing the syntax. Thanks for your answers. I have what I need to progress further!
On Saturday, November 30, 2013, Paul Norman wrote: > The dev API is an entirely separate API with its own data. > > > > As XAPI is an extension to the standard API, it does does support the > standard object by ID calls, e.g. > http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/api/0.6/relation/2202120 > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > [mailto:[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>] > *On Behalf Of *Grégory Bataille > *Sent:* Friday, November 29, 2013 11:51 PM > *To:* Paul Norman > *Cc:* [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > *Subject:* Re: [OSM-dev] Problem with XAPI and ref based search > > > > oh god. I must have missed some combination when I had this idea. so what > happens is that the data behind the dev OSM API seems partial. so when I > started with overpass to do a complex query, the then OSM base API did not > find the elements by id! the Prod API does though. > > I don't think the XAPI layer can do a search by ID (at least I haven't > found one). > > > > but not I can finally tie things together. Thanks for putting me back on > track! > > > > Cheers > > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Grégory Bataille <[email protected]> > wrote: > > that's exactly what I had suspected at some point, but I did not make it > work then either, let me retry that once I'm fully awaken and I'll get back > to you. Thanks for the quick answer. > > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ref is a reference to an object ID, not a ref tag. Instead of > /api/0.6/relation[ref=2202120] you want /api/0.6/relation/2202120. > > > > I’m not 100% sure if the overpass compatibility layer will correctly > handle the latter syntax. > > > > *From:* Grégory Bataille [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, November 29, 2013 4:42 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [OSM-dev] Problem with XAPI and ref based search > > > > hello everybody, > > > > I have been trying to use OSM data for a while. basically, first, I'd like > to get the admin boundaries of France. > > I start by asking XAPI to give me the France admin_level 2 object like so: > > > http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[boundary=administrative][admin_level=2][name=France] > > > > this returns me the object, which contains among other things: > > <member type="relation" ref="79981" role="outer"></member> > >
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