You can use the Overpass turbo frontend to create and display queries for the above-mentioned Overpass API instances. Queries to the Overpass API are in XML or Overpass QL form. Operational issues/questions/feedback? Please post a support ticket.Īn Overpass API endpoint is also available for Open Historical Map. Please notify us in advance if you intend to use our service in a large scale project. There are currently no requests limitations and we will try to keep this approach in the future.Ĥ servers with 20 cores, 256GB RAM, SSD eachįeel free to use our service in any project, there is no rate limit in place. Ģ servers with 56 physical cores, 384Gb RAM, SSD eachįeel free to use our services in any project. You can safely assume that you don't disturb other users when you do less than 10,000 queries per day and download less than 1 GB data per day. You can use the public visible instances:Ģ servers, each 16 physical cores, 128 GB RAM, NVME-SSD

To support small and well scaling OSM main services, Overpass API is run as a third party service. For legacy applications, there's also a compatibility layer to allow a smooth transition from XAPI. It is highly recommended to get familiar with various features via overpass turbo, an interactive Web-based frontend. There exists in addition a Overpass QL guide/language reference.

Please see the full user's manual for a detailed introduction. It acts as a database backend for various services. location, type of objects, tag properties, proximity, or combinations of them. Unlike the main API, which is optimized for editing, Overpass API is optimized for data consumers that need a few elements within a glimpse or up to roughly 10 million elements in some minutes, both selected by search criteria like e.g. It acts as a database over the web: the client sends a query to the API and gets back the data set that corresponds to the query. The Overpass API (formerly known as OSM Server Side Scripting, or OSM3S before 2011) is a read-only API that serves up custom selected parts of the OSM map data.

8 Resource management options (osm-script).

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