Overpass server for Ireland and Britain

Communities Ireland
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(see equivalent topic in UK category)

I’ve set up an Overpass API server with Britain and Ireland data in it. The server is https://h24.atownsend.org.uk/ - see the page there for capabilities, usage policy and privacy policy. You can use any other Overpass Turbo instance to point to it; just follow these instructions. I’ve also added it to the wiki list.

I suspect that the big caveat for some people will be that it’s currently IPV6 only. Adoption of that is apparently just over 40% in Ireland. If you can see the website, you can use IPV6. Overpass Turbo runs in your browser and sends requests to a remote Overpass API instance, so it doesn’t matter whether the site hosting Overpass Turbo is IPV6-capable, it matters that your browser is.

The Britain and Ireland data is updated nightly. Area searches work OK, but there’s currently no metadata or attic data.

Setup of a similar server was described in a diary entry, so if you fancy running your own server, off you go…

Any questions - please let me know!

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That’s limiting enough Andy, I work in IT and even I don’t bother with IPv6 on my home internet connection. I can resolve the IP to IPv6, but my browser doesn’t connect (as expected).

ronnie@Wyse-7040:~$ nslookup h24.atownsend.org.uk
Server:		10.0.0.2
Address:	10.0.0.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	h24.atownsend.org.uk
Address: 2a01:4f8:201:57::4

But thanks for the write-up on how to do this anyhow.

Edit: and the fact that you used emacs as the command-line editor :rofl: