Overpass API Availability Issues

This is a known issue, see Overpass API performance issues. Thank AI for abusing donation-funded services.

Solutions:

  • Set up your own instance or pay someone to do it for you. Note: Overpass is a dead-end. For production, you will want to use something different, e.g. PostgreSQL.
  • Install PostgreSQL, import data with Osm2pgsql and use SQL for querying.
  • Use Postpass if you just want to run a single or a few queries.
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