How to get data with geodesk's gol tool using an ID?

Unfortunately, querying by OSM ID isn’t possible in the current version. For Python scripting, you can use the workaround proposed by @osmuser63783. This will be slow for large GOLs, since the query engine has to perform a full scan (IDs aren’t currently indexed), but you can mitigate this by constraining the query set if you know the node’s general geographic area and/or tags.

ID indexing is coming in the next major version (It is a required part of fast minutely updates). However, there are no currently plans to support it in the GOL Tool, so I opened this enhancement issue on GitHub. The core of the issue is deciding on the query syntax – if you have any preferences, please leave a comment.

Thanks for your patience!