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JakobMiksch / osm-feature-info

Attempt to create an API to get information about OSM features around a location.
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Add optional parameter to filter polygons larger than x m² #9

Closed iboates closed 2 weeks ago

iboates commented 7 months ago

One thing I found annoying on the OSM website was that whenever you click, you will get the entire hierarchy of administrative polygons, which you might sometimes want, but often times I think people are zoomed in really far and are looking for info on buildings, streets, or other POIs

I suggest adding an optional parameter to the query which will not return polygons over a certain area, so that with a large value like 100 km², you will effectively exclude all the administrative boundaries or other large, encompassing-features. I realize it's not totally robust but I think it would be a nice convenience feature on the interface.

Thoughts?

JakobMiksch commented 7 months ago

sounds good, theoretically one can compute the area of all polygons but maybe it is already enough to check if the polygon's BBOX is within a specific range ...

JakobMiksch commented 2 weeks ago

not needed because the current osm website does not do it as well and currently we want to have feature parity with the osm website