Problem getting data with api 0.6

General talk
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I am using the following to obtain the data for a bounding box. In the past there was no problem but did not saved the exact command, I recreated it as follow, but it does not return lakes or administrative boundary names.
curl.exe --verbose --location --parallel --keepalive-time 5 --output C:\temp\map.osm --url “http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?*%5Bbbox=-109.344,26.414,-103.053,34.304%5D”
I have read all the documentation that seemed like relevant but no idea what goes on.
Any suggestions?

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I have experimented with other URLs and curl options, but no luck so far

3

This example still works:
[bbox=7.1,51.2,7.2,51.3]
Maybe you bbox is simply too large?

4

I’ll try a call with half the area, and see if that does it. Thank you

5

Your box is huge compared to the one in the example. I’d be surprised to hear that this works. Maybe download an extract from geofabrik instread.

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It worked just fine a couple weeks ago, just I don’t remember the exact command.

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Try some of the other public overpass instances: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API#Public_Overpass_API_instances

Your download would be 95-120 MB in PBF format (depending on options used), which corresponds to 2.3GB uncompressed XML format.
While this is still possible on some Overpass instances, you should really look for a country extract instead.

Also, please don’t use XAPI. It’s been long deprecated.

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GerdP was right, it is the size, half of it download all the information just fine. I am splitting in 4 to make the downloads less onerous and joining back on my side.
Thank you