Overpass API python wrapper

This is a thin wrapper around the OpenStreetMap Overpass API.

Install it

pip install overpass

Usage

Simplest example:

import overpass
api = overpass.API()
response = api.Get('node["name"="Salt Lake City"]')

Note that you don't have to include any of the output meta statements. The wrapper will, well, wrap those.

You will get your result as a dictionary, which represents the JSON output you would get from the Overpass API directly. So you could do this for example:

print [(feature['tags']['name'], feature['id']) for feature in response['elements']]
[(u'Salt Lake City', 150935219), (u'Salt Lake City', 585370637), (u'Salt Lake City', 1615721573)]

You can specify the format of the response. By default, you will get GeoJSON using the responseformat parameter. Alternatives are plain JSON (json) and OSM XML (xml), as ouput directly by the Overpass API.

response = api.Get('node["name"="Salt Lake City"]', responseformat="xml")

Parameters

The API object takes a few parameters:

endpoint

The default endpoint is http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter but you can pass in another instance:

api = overpass.API(endpoint=http://overpass.myserver/interpreter)

timeout

The default timeout is 25 seconds, but you can set it to whatever you want.

api = overpass.API(timeout=600)

debug

Setting this to True will get you debug output.

Simple queries

In addition to just send your query and parse the result, the wrapper provides shortcuts for often used map queries. To use them, just pass them like to normal query to the API.

MapQuery

This is a shorthand for a complete ways and relations query in a bounding box (the 'map call'). You just pass the bounding box to the constructor:

map_query = overpass.MapQuery(50.746,7.154,50.748,7.157)
response = api.Get(map_query)

WayQuery

This is shorthand for getting a set of ways and their child nodes that satisfy certain criteria. Pass the criteria as a Overpass QL stub to the constructor:

way_query = overpass.WayQuery('[name="Highway 51"]')
response = api.Get(way_query)

Testing

Using nose.

py.test

FAQ

I need help or have an idea for a feature

Create a new issue.

Where did the CLI tool go?

I decided that it does not belong in this repo. If you still want it, get version 0.4.0 or below.