Bounding boxes just aren't working for me

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1

I’m trying to use bounding boxes to restrict a query for “France” to just the mainland.

The first variant below returns a syntax error. It doesn’t like “[bbox”.
The second variant below doesn’t restrict to the bounding box. It returns France and all its overseas possessions. What am I doing wrong?

[out:json][timeout:950];
[bbox:42,-7,51,8];
relation["ISO3166-1"=FR];
out geom;

[out:json][timeout:950];
relation["ISO3166-1"=FR](42,-7,51,8);
out geom;
2

So https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1403916 is not an option?

3

That’s a big improvement, but it still includes Corsica. Need a bounding box I think just to get the ‘mainland’

4

Does https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/16467322 work?

5

Can’t find an existing boundary that works, so it might be something along the lines of:

area[name="France métropolitaine"][admin_level=3][boundary=administrative]->.mp;
area[admin_level=4]["ISO3166-2"~"^FR"]["ISO3166-2"!="FR-20R"](area.mp) ->.lhexagone;
(
  node[place=city](area.lhexagone);
);
(._;>;);
6

All those tildes,^, !=, >, _ symbols have me complete;y bamboozled. I just used a bounding box (42,-7,51,8) and it solved the problem.

There seems to be something weird about the French-Belgium/Germany border. It’s rendering peculiar.

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7

My query was rel[“ISO3166-1”=“FR”] with a bounding box of (42,-7,51,8)

8

Fixed it - my own silly fault. My bounding box just clipped the top and right edge of France. By expanding the box all is good. I struggled to find an easy way to generate the bounding box, but I’ve just worked out how to show the grid in Google Earth. I have the same issue with a few other counties, but I know how to fix it now.