Exporting POI from OSM

Communities ישראל (Israel)
1

Hi,

Using XAPI, I found a way to export interesting POIs from OSM. For example, to get all the fuel stations, use http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/node[amenity=fuel][bbox=34.23,29.43,35.89,33.35]

Disadvantages:

  • node[tag=value] can be used only once per URL call.
  • [bbox=34.23,29.43,35.89,33.35] includes Israel and parts of our neighbors.

Is there a better way of getting relevant POIs from OSM?

adrukh

2

You could extract them from the daily GeoFabrik extract,
or from the CloudMade extract.

The CloudMade extract is a little less frequent, but I believe that it’s good enough if you don’t want to write scripts.

talkat.

3

If you don’t need to have up-to-date information, you can use the daily extract + osmosis.
For example:

dimka

4

Thanks!