Hi Dan, You should have a look at XAPI: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI
--Ciprian On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Dan Yamins <dyam...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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