Area generation with Overpass-API

[angelo-romano]

Hi all, I have been trying to generate areas from a database clone of Overpass-API and this is proving to be nearly impossible on my machine (Linux Mint with 8GB of RAM). Basically every time I get some kind of error, may it be timeout related, memory related or just processes being killed by the system unilaterally.

I was therefore wondering why area DB files (db/area*) are not being cloned, as that would basically help me quite a lot to have them immediately rather than waiting a day of computation only to find out the creation script went crashing (I only need these info for read-only purposes).

Thanks, with best regards, Angelo

[mmd-osm]

We don't have areas on the machine which creates the clone file. If you don't need areas for every type of object, you could try to throw out those parts in https://github.com/drolbr/Overpass-API/blob/master/src/rules/areas.osm3s which are not relevant for you.

[angelo-romano]

Thanks for your reply. I basically need areas only for countries (and possibly other administrative areas too). Should it be something like that? `

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[mmd-osm]

I cannot tell from this snippet. Can you post your complete areas rules file, maybe as Github gist. Also, you could simply run your query via osm3s_query, check the results, and if the way/relations are the ones you want to create some areas for, adjust your area rules file accordingly.

[drolbr]

Thanks for your reply. I basically need areas only for countries (and possibly other administrative areas too). Should it be something like that? <query type="relation"> <has-kv k="ISO3166-1:alpha2"/> <has-kv k="name"/> </query>

Basically, yes. That could work. As mmd has written, please post the full rule file to judge whether it should work.