Talk:Overpass turbo/Extended Overpass Turbo Queries

Simple search queries in URL

Hi all, I can see that you can prepare a query in overpass turbo using a url such as http://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=pub+in+dublin Is it possible to then run and download the data provided by that query automatically ? thanks, Matt

Yes, you can run the query immediately by appending &R to your query string: http://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=pub+in+dublin&R

Regarding the download part, I wonder what your use case is. Can you elaborate a bit? Mmd (talk) 09:40, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Query from an Android app

Hi there, I am creating an android application that I wish to be native and therefore plots on to google maps. However, the google maps api does now work in the way I wish. I am therefore using open street maps to parse data off of a map area that is relevant to the user ( based on their current location). To do this, I need to construct a query, run it and download the xml to their phone so that it can be parsed. I have all this working manually but need to automate it to be of any use. -Matt--Imattuk (talk) 11:54, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello Matt, in this case you should get familiar with the famous Overpass API instead of overpass-turbo, because the latter is just a kind of GUI for overpass-api.

Read the documentation in the wiki about overpass-api intensively ... there are instructions how to form queries for almost all scenarios.

Maybe there are even some more detailed hints at http://help.osm.org ... do a search there for "overpass"

By the way: have you tried to display your results on an OSM based map instead of googlemaps? You can display OSM based maps either online vial tiles, or offline via pre-loaded vector data map files. Maybe see Osmdroid ... --Stephan75 (talk) 17:08, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Setting the bounding box

Are there more URL parameters i.e. to set the bounding box? Could you make a description? -karlos- (talk) 06:21, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

shortcut useless without examples

One can also define custom shortcuts by putting {{shortcut=value}} somewhere in the script. Then every occurrence of {{shortcut}} is replaced by its value.

Useless without examples. Jidanni (talk) 22:13, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

IMHO it's pretty self explanatory. What kind of example would you like to see, and can you please provide one? -- Tyr (talk) 09:29, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

I can't see a way to provide an example, because to me, also, the text is useless: you have to know what it means to know what it means.

Just about any worked example, by someone who knows how and why to use these shortcuts, would help, imo. eteb3 (talk) 14:29, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

"out tags" , "out center"

Is this the place to put an explanation of the fact that you can have different outputs?

I learned from the community forum that "out tags" and "out center" is a thing.

Or are those terms detailed elsewhere on the wiki?

eteb3 (talk) 14:31, 1 October 2024 (UTC)