Morning all , I’m totally a beginner so please tolerate.
Q. On OSM standard I’ve seen some carparks are indicated with a unhitched caravan icon. Can I search an area using this identifier. If so how do I go about it ?
Hope this quetion is not out of context with the forum or owt like that !
Do you mean like here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.15331/-1.34033? If so, that’s a caravan site.
The general way to find out what something is is to zoom in, click on the “?” icon at the right-hand side of the map, then click on the feature (or the edge of the feature) that you’re interested in. When you do this a list of features appears at the left. Hover the mouse over each to see what gets highlighted, then click on one for more info. In this case you get http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/250251050, and you can click on “caravan_site” at the left to go to the OpenStreetMap wiki article about it - in this case http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism=caravan%20site?uselang=en-GB.
Thankyou SomeoneElse , perfect ! So is a way possible whereby I can search for these locations within a region. For example Derbyshire. ( I happen to be on the road in Germany at the mo’ , but guessing it’ll be the same.)
Another great tool to find out what is on the map is openpoimap.
Here you see your question:
http://openpoimap.org/?map=hotels&zoom=14&lat=53.15768&lon=-1.37617&layers=B00FFTFFFFF
Be sure to read the wiki.
You can use http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/ and “Overpass turbo” to search for things in an area.
From http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/250251050 you can see the tag “tourism=caravan_site”. Typing that into Taginfo’s sarch box gives http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=tourism%3Dcaravan_site. Click on “caravan_site” and then “OverPass Turbo”. Move the map at the right where you’re interested in searching and click “run” - the things found will be shown at the right and you can click on them.
If you want to save a query click “share” and you get something like http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/atI.