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, > > @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 know why > use overpass instead of XAPI for read only queries. > > Thanks! > Sachin Dole > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Simone Cortesi <sim...@cortesi.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Giuseppe Ricci <peppepega...@gmail.com> >> 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 is this tutorial: >>> >>> https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/phpsqlajax_v3 >> >> we normally use http://leafletjs.com/ as a front-end to osm tiles. >> >> the DB approach you suggest is still valid inside OSM, you need to >> provide your own database and create a structure which can be queried >> by your script, a that is able to provide well formatted json or csv >> based on the requested bounding box. there are numerous plugins for >> that: http://leafletjs.com/plugins.html >> >>> The second question is: can I query the osm's database to find hotels, >>> restaurants, shopping center, etc? Is it possible to show these points >> on a >>> osm map? >> >> overpass API is the answer. >> >> shops in Bari: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2PS >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev