Where to download OSM POIs?

OpenStreetMap Questions and Answers
#1

Hello! I just could not find POI dataset on OSM planet website. Could you please help? Many thanks.

Xintao

#2

You may have to extract them yourself. I don’t think anyone is currently providing a POI-only extract.

#3

Hi, Alex Mckee, thanks for your reply.

Do you mean I have to check the appropriate key/value pairs of all the nodes in my interested area to get the different kinds of POI? Here I find a place for downloading http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/sweden#breadcrumbs . Did they do that in the same way?

Thanks

#4

Hi, any suggestion for how to extract POIs from OSM data? Thanks a lot.

Xintao

#5

Could it not be done via the XAPI, something like this:

http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/node[amenity=hospital]

plus a little post-processing.

(example from the XAPI webpage)

-peter