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goodformandspectacle / londonmuseums

Looking to make something that shows all the museums in London.
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add example overpass query for museums in and around London. #1

Closed bdon closed 9 years ago

bdon commented 10 years ago

Overpass is a nice API for querying all of OSM. You can paste this query overpass_query.txt into the Overpass Turbo user interface and get all entities that are tagged tourism=museum:

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I've chosen an arbitrary bounding box in the query that includes London and surrounding areas. Of the results, some museums are tagged as one-dimensional nodes, others have building outlines:

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Inside Overpass Turbo you can also go to Export > As GeoJSON... to get a file that you can manipulate in other programs.