I'm trying to determine whether the open Street map API can be used to extract lists of large high-level geographic features -- e.g. US states, counties, or postal codes -- within a given bounding box.
As far as I can tell by looking here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Places> it seems like the OSM data contains information on all the types of entities I care about. On the other hand, the API described here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 describes how to get data within a given bounding box. However, this seems to return _all_ points and ways within the bounding box, and as a result, the largest boxes I can use is much smaller than what I need. What I would like to do is to be able to limit the request to only return lists of features of a particular type, e.g. county, state or posal code -- and, consequently, be able to query much larger regions. Is the OSM api capable of this? If so, is there a place I can read about how to do it? If not, could someone point me to a project that might give this sort of capability? (I'm mostly interest in US data). Thanks! Dan
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