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Overpass API
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Author: drolbr/Overpass-API/graphs/contributors
Website: overpass-api.de
Source code: drolbr/Overpass-API

A database engine to query the OpenStreetMap data

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Introduction

The Overpass API (formerly known as OSM Server Side Scripting, or OSM3S before 2011) is a read-only API that serves up custom selected parts of the OSM map data. It acts as a database over the web: the client sends a query to the API and gets back the data set that corresponds to the query.

Unlike the main API, which is optimized for editing, Overpass API is optimized for data consumers that need a few elements within a glimpse or up to roughly 10 million elements in some minutes, both selected by search criteria like e.g. location, type of objects, tag properties, proximity, or combinations of them. It acts as a database backend for various services.

Please see the full user's manual for a detailed introduction.

There exists in addition a Overpass QL guide/language reference. It is highly recommended to get familiar with various features via overpass turbo, an interactive Web-based frontend. For legacy applications, there's also a compatibility layer to allow a smooth transition from XAPI.


Quick Start (60 seconds): Interactive UI

(If interested in raw data see Quick Start: for Developers/Programmers below)

Quick Start (60 seconds): for Developers/Programmers

Note: this approach retrieves raw data, and while this example uses Javascript, with JSON output, the API works with effectively any language and has many output formats.

  • (Be ready to ignore the following "Error: encoding error: Your input contains only whitespace." which just means "no query was given")
  • Open https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter in a new tab
  • Open your browser's console while on that page
  • Paste the code snippet below (and press [Enter])
var result = await fetch(
    "https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter",
    {
        method: "POST",
        // The body contains the query
        // to understand the query language see "The Programmatic Query Language" on
        // https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API#The_Programmatic_Query_Language_(OverpassQL)
        body: "data="+ encodeURIComponent(`
            [bbox:30.618338,-96.323712,30.591028,-96.330826]
            [out:json]
            [timeout:90]
            ;
            (
                way
                    (
                         30.626917110746,
                         -96.348809105664,
                         30.634468750236,
                         -96.339893442898
                     );
            );
            out geom;
        `)
    },
).then(
    (data)=>data.json()
)

console.log(JSON.stringify(result , null, 2))
  • You should then see something similar to the following:
 {
   version: 0.6,
   generator: "Overpass API 0.7.61.5 4133829e",
   osm3s: {
     timestamp_osm_base: "2023-10-17T15:22:15Z",
     copyright: "The data included in this document is from www.openstreetmap.org. The data "...
   },
   elements: [
     {
       type: "way",
       id: 20714383,
       bounds: {
         minlat: 30.6277358,
         minlon: -96.341929,
         maxlat: 30.628834,
         maxlon: -96.340566
       },
       nodes: [ 222454378, 4204990218, 222454386 ],
       geometry: [
         { lat: 30.6277358, lon: -96.340566 },
         { lat: 30.6278459, lon: -96.3407026 },
         { lat: 30.628834, lon: -96.341929 }
       ],
       tags: {
         highway: "service",
         name: "W-X Street",
         postal_code: "77840",
         "tiger:county": "Brazos, TX"
       }
     },

...
  • Usually, the output will be truncated. To see the full response:
  • Go to the Network tab.
  • Select the last line.
  • Go to the Response inner tab.

The Programmatic Query Language (OverpassQL)

  • First know there are two query languages:
    • OverpassQL (the raw/unfriendly language)
    • Overpass API Query Language (more friendly AND can be auto-converted into OverpassQL)
  • To get a query that can be used in your code:
    1. Use the Quick Start: Interactive UI section above to generate/understand the user-friendly query syntax
    2. Then use this site to convert your user-friendly queries to OverpassQL
    3. Then use THAT output in the code (as demonstrated above; e.g. a URI-escaped body of a POST request)

Public Overpass API instances

To support small and well scaling OSM main services, Overpass API is run as a third party service. You can use the public visible instances:

Name Data coverage Endpoint Version Attic data Hardware Munin Usage policy
Main Overpass API instance Global https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter 0.7.61.5 4133829e yes 2 servers, each 16 physical cores, 128 GB RAM, NVME-SSD 12 You can safely assume that you don't disturb other users when you do less than 10,000 queries per day and download less than 1 GB data per day[1].
VK Maps Overpass API instance (Russia) Global https://maps.mail.ru/osm/tools/overpass/api/interpreter 0.7.57.1 yes 2 servers with 56 physical cores, 384Gb RAM, SSD each - Feel free to use our services in any project. There are currently no requests limitations and we will try to keep this approach in the future.
overpass turbo is also deployed under https://maps.mail.ru/osm/tools/overpass/
Russian Overpass API instance Global https://overpass.openstreetmap.ru/api/interpreter 0.7.57.1 no 8 cores, 64 GB RAM, hard disks ?
Swiss Overpass API instance Switzerland only https://overpass.osm.ch/api/interpreter 0.7.59.1 2a9d9642 no 12 cores, 64 GB RAM, hard disks ? Ask User:Datendelphin
Kumi Systems Overpass Instance Global https://overpass.kumi.systems/api/interpreter Runs a mix of 0.7.59 and 0.7.60 yes 4 servers with 20 cores, 256GB RAM, SSD each - Feel free to use our service in any project, there is no rate limit in place. Please notify us in advance if you intend to use our service in a large scale project. Operational issues/questions/feedback? Please post a support ticket.

An Overpass API endpoint is also available for OpenHistoricalMap. See OpenHistoricalMap/Overpass for instructions for accessing this endpoint and examples of OpenHistoricalMap queries.

Queries to the Overpass API are in XML or Overpass QL form. See the semantics explained below. You can use the Overpass turbo frontend to create and display queries for the above-mentioned Overpass API instances.

Overpass API also provides permanent links.

Community: where can I get help?

Firstly - note that Overpass Turbo is documented separately to the Overpass API itself. The Overpass API documentation isn't searchable and won't actually help you much unless you are already very familiar with the Overpass API itself. If you've come to Overpass via .e.g Taginfo, then it's the Overpass Turbo documentation (which includes a query wizard) that you actually want.

There are several community sites providing help for Overpass API and overpass turbo related questions. It is the recommended channel for introductory to expert level questions or more generally, if your question is interesting to a wider audience.

Please note that old questions and old answers on these sites may be outdated. Missing features may have been implemented in the meantime, and workarounds may have been streamlined. If you ask a question on a real-time help site such as IRC or Slack, then obviously you'll get an up to date answer.

In addition, only the IRC and OSM Help links are managed by the OSM community - the other sites are controlled by third parties.

Type Site Language Frequently used 'tags' for questions
Forum
OSM Community (categories: General talk, Help & Support) English overpass
Q&A Sites
GIS StackExchange English overpass-api
Stack Overflow English overpass-api
Chat
OSM US Slack (channel #overpass) English
OSM Dev Telegram group English
OSM World Discord (channel #developer) English
IRC #osm channel English n/a - just ask your question
Legacy sites
OSM Help (outdated, use OSM Community instead) English overpass, overpass-turbo

Developers / System Administrators

You can install your own instance from the latest stable release or the git source code repository (latest version). It is licensed under the Affero GPL v3.

The project is maintained by Roland Olbricht (mail: roland.olbricht@gmx.de). Contributions like bug reports or pull requests to the source code are welcome.

There is a mailing list for developers

Limitations

Every service has its limitations, and so does Overpass API:

Downloading big data
As the size of an Overpass API query result is only known when the download is complete, it is impossible to give an ETA while downloading. And the dynamically generated files from Overpass API typically take longer to generate and download than downloading existing static extracts of the same region. As a result, when you want to extract country-sized regions with all (or nearly all) data in it, it's better to use planet.osm mirrors for that. Overpass API is most useful when the amount of data needed is only a selection of the data available in the region.
Querying of OSM data history
Overpass API doesn't offer changeset-based criteria. It's possible to work around that, by using time-based diffs, but this may be clumsy. Overpass API also can't give you full history of an object, but time-based selection criteria can give you the state of an object at a certain time. (this is supported since version 0.7.55 via retro and timeline, see Sliced Time and Space for more details).
Database lag
It can take a couple of minutes for changes to the database to show up in the Overpass API query results. Every query returns an osm_base timestamp which tells you the last time the data was updated. For the overpass-api.de instances you can also inspect the current and historic database lag via Munin (lz4 & z).

The map query

Before we get to a detailed syntax explanation, we present the probably most common use case, the map query, to collect all data (including metadata) from a given bounding box (these requests are compacted to the minimum; note that the icon links to run those requests also include parameters to set the center of the rendered map at specified coordinates and zoom level, and to run the request immediately on load):

Overpass QL Overpass XML
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
(
   node(51.249,7.148,51.251,7.152);
   <;
);
out meta;
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
<union>
  <bbox-query s="51.249" w="7.148" n="51.251" e="7.152"/>
  <recurse type="up"/>
</union>
<print mode="meta"/>

To run this query, you can feed it into this query form, or you can use Overpass Turbo to see the results on a map.

The order of values in the bounding box (51.249,7.148,51.251,7.152) is minimum latitude, minimum longitude, maximum latitude, maximum longitude (or South-West-North-East). See more details about bbox below.

Simple usage examples

To find out more about the Overpass API query language, see Overpass API Language Guide, as well as the Overpass API Query Language description.

Resource management options (osm-script)

The osm-script is silently added if you don't specify it explicitly when using the XML syntax. The reason to specify one explicitly is to tweak the resource management options by setting optional XML attributes (equivalent bracketted options may also be specified in an empty statement at start of your query when using the QL syntax).

Overpass XML Overpass QL
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
<osm-script timeout="900" element-limit="1073741824">
  <bbox-query s="51.15" w="7.0" n="51.35" e="7.3"/>
  <print/>
</osm-script>
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
[timeout:900][maxsize:1073741824];
node(51.15,7.0,51.35,7.3);
out;

This query extends the timeout from 3 minutes to 15 minutes (written as 900 seconds). Additionally, the soft quota for memory usage is set to 1 GiB (equals 1073741824 byte).

Warning: when running this example, more than 100 MiB of data will be retrieved (even if it does not recurse up to give all details like in the first example, here it will only retrieve a flat list of nodes with their tags). Overpass will alert you if you run it directly in your browser to render the data on the map, the browser tab may crash if you continue loading it. The results of such large requests should be downloaded for processing by other tools.

These resource limits cannot be set to arbitrary high values: each Overpass API instance may refuse to extend them above some threshold (depending on server capabilities or current server load), or the query may just fail with an error message (and non-OK HTTP server error status).

Advanced usage examples

The following examples introduce the remaining commands recurse and around. They only make sense in combination with other commands.

Again, all of the following examples can be tested by copying the snippets to this query form.

Note: Queries may take several minutes to be completed. If you receive timeouts, you can extend the timeout period.

Recurse

With recurse, you query for membership relations. It is available for ways to get all referred nodes, for relations to get all member nodes or member ways. Or the other way round, to get for a node, way or relation the ways or relations the element is member of. You select among the type of element by the type attribute.

Example: Get the nodes of all relations that have the key ref with value E61. In fact, get all bus stops served by E61.

Overpass QL Overpass XML
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
rel[ref="E61"];
node(r);

out body;
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
<osm-script><query type="relation">
  <has-kv k="ref" v="E61"/>
</query>
<recurse type="relation-node"/>

<print/></osm-script>


Get the ways of all relations that have the key ref with value E61. In fact, that is the itinerary served by E61.

Overpass QL Overpass XML
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
rel[ref="E61"];
way(r);

out body;
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
<osm-script><query type="relation">
  <has-kv k="ref" v="E61"/>
</query>
<recurse type="relation-way"/>

<print/></osm-script>


Get the nodes of the above mentioned ways. You don't get the bus stops, but that is intentionally - see below at the union examples.

Overpass QL Overpass XML
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
rel[ref="E61"];
way(r);
node(w);

out body;
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
<osm-script><query type="relation">
  <has-kv k="ref" v="E61"/>
</query>
<recurse type="relation-way"/>
<recurse type="way-node"/>

<print/></osm-script>


Get all relations that have the nodes named Lichtscheid as members. These are the bus lines stopping there.

<query type="node">
  <has-kv k="name" v="Lichtscheid"/>
</query>
<recurse type="node-relation"/>

<print/>

Get all the ways that have a node member within the given bounding box.

<bbox-query s="51.249" n="51.251" w="7.149" e="7.151"/>
<recurse type="node-way"/>

<print/>

And we can also get relation members of relations:

<query type="relation">
  <has-kv k="name" v="VRR Buslinien"/>
</query>
<recurse type="relation-relation"/>

<print/>

Or the same thing backwards:

<query type="relation">
  <has-kv k="ref" v="E61"/>
</query>
<recurse type="relation-backwards"/>

<print/>

Around

around allows you to get all nodes near one or more given nodes. For example, to get all nodes that are at most 10 meters around the nodes called Bristol:

try it yourself in overpass-turbo
<query type="node">
  <has-kv k="name" v="Bristol"/>
</query>
<around radius="10"/>
<print/>

You can also chain queries to get only nodes satisfying a second criterion that are located near nodes matching the first criterion. Here, we will search for all bus stops within 100 meters of pubs named "Bristol":

try it yourself in overpass-turbo
<query type="node">
  <has-kv k="amenity" v="pub"/>
  <has-kv k="name" v="Bristol"/>
</query>
<query type="node">
  <around radius="100"/>
  <has-kv k="highway" v="bus_stop"/>
</query>
<print/>

Building blocks

We still have some helper statements to explain, in particular union, item, the variable mechanism, and foreach.

Again, all of the following examples can be tested by copying the snippets to this form.

Union

Union allows you to group the results of several queries. For example, you can get all nodes that have name Lichtscheid or Müngstener Straße.

<union>
  <query type="node">
    <has-kv k="name" v="Lichtscheid"/>
  </query>
  <query type="node">
    <has-kv k="name" v="Müngstener Straße"/>
  </query>
</union>
<print/>

Another usage would be to get a relation with all of its members, including the nodes of member ways.

<union>
  <query type="relation">
    <has-kv k="ref" v="CE 61"/>
  </query>
  <recurse type="relation-node" into="nodes"/>
  <recurse type="relation-way"/>
  <recurse type="way-node"/>
</union>
<print/>

This needs some explanation:

  • query collects the relations with ref CE 61. It writes the result to the default variable _. And the embracing union collects the data.
  • recurse relation-node collects the nodes that are members of the above found relations. The result is placed in the variable nodes (we don't need it there anymore, just to keep relations in the default variable). And it is collected by the embracing union.
  • recurse relation-way sees again the relations from the default variable and returns the ways that are members of the default variable's relations. Again, the embracing union collects the results.
  • recurse way-node finally returns the nodes that are members of the ways just collected. This is the last piece of data that goes into the union's result.

If you think this is complicated, you are right. I'm open to suggestions how to improve the statement semantics, but I haven't found anything systematic yet.

Now we are ready to assemble the map call, by combining a bbox-query with several recurse statements and embracing the whole thing with an union.

Item

Part of the idea behind item and variables you have already seen in the preceding example: every statement fetches its input from a variable and puts its output into a variable. If you omit the variable name, it defaults to _. This makes in possible to remove almost all explicit specifications of variables. The input is always fetched from the variable named by the attribute from, the output is always put into the variable specified with into.

<query type="way" into="foo">
  <has-kv k="name" v="Am Hofe"/>
</query>
<print from="foo"/>

E.g., this does the same as the respective example at print, but it uses the explicitly stated variable foo.

To make this concept fully versatile, item allows you to specify a set as input in union and query:

<query type="relation">
  <has-kv k="network" v="VRR"/>
  <has-kv k="ref" v="645"/>
</query>
<recurse type="relation-node" into="stops"/>
<query type="node">
  <around from="stops" radius="100"/>
  <has-kv k="highway" v="bus_stop"/>
</query>
<union>
  <item/>
  <recurse type="node-relation"/>
  <query type="node">
    <around from="stops" radius="100"/>
    <has-kv k="park_ride"/>
  </query>
</union>
<print/>

Here, in the middle, the item ensures that the beforehand collected data for bus_stop is included in the results of union. This also shows how the variable stops is necessary to make the query possible.

<bbox-query s="51.15" n="51.35" w="7.0" e="7.3"/>
<recurse type="node-way"/>
<query type="way">
  <item/>
  <has-kv k="highway" v="motorway"/>
</query>
<print/>

The item in query restricts the possibly found items to those already found in the step before, with recurse. Thus, we have a complete query to find ways with arbitrary tags within a bbox.

Foreach

<query type="relation">
  <has-kv k="type" v="multipolygon"/>
  <has-kv k="name"/>
</query>
<foreach into="pivot">
  <union>
    <recurse type="relation-way" from="pivot"/>
    <recurse type="way-node"/>
  </union>
  <make-area pivot="pivot"/>
</foreach>

This is the essential part of the rule that creates the areas. We do not explain the make-area here, please have a look at Areas wiki page for details. The first part with query collects all relations with certain properties. In the second part, we want to do something with each element in the result of query. This does foreach. The body of the loop is executed once for every element in the input set, containing exactly this single element in the output set, here named as pivot.

Meta data

Beside the special mode of print, there are two statements dedicated to query for specific meta data, user and newer.

User

You can select all data that has been touched the last time by a particular user. Choose the user name (for example, mine):

<user name="Roland Olbricht"/>
<print mode="meta"/>

Or choose a user id:

<user uid="65282"/>
<print mode="meta"/>

This statement can also be used within a query statement. It then restricts the result to data that has been last touched by the provided user:

<query type="node">
  <user name="Roland Olbricht"/>
  <has-kv k="highway" v="bus_stop"/>
  <bbox-query s="51.2" n="51.35" w="7.05" e="7.3"/>
</query>
<print mode="meta"/>

Newer

Newer can be used within query statement (and not as a standalone statement). It restricts the output to elements that are newer than the given date. The date must be in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. It refers, as the results, always to the timezone UTC.

<query type="node">
  <newer than="2011-08-01T00:00:00Z"/>
  <has-kv k="highway" v="bus_stop"/>
  <bbox-query s="51.2" n="51.35" w="7.05" e="7.3"/>
</query>
<print mode="meta"/>

If you want to get all nodes newer than a certain date from a bbox, you can use query with an item substatement.

<bbox-query s="51.2" n="51.35" w="7.05" e="7.3"/>
<query type="node">
  <item/>
  <newer than="2011-08-01T00:00:00Z"/>
</query>
<print mode="meta"/>

See Overpass API/Overpass API by Example#Users and old data for examples with more modern syntax.

Public transport example

Example preview of line 6 (APS Mobilità).

An interesting example of how the Overpass API can be integrated into an application - a service to generate line diagrams for public transport.

See example prerendered views on the right. More examples on this page.

On this wiki, you can create links to this tool with the documented {{Sketch Line}} template.

(Please be patient - each request can take up to 10 seconds to generate, depending on server load.)

Note: As of Overpass API v0.7.52, PTv2 support has some known issues, resulting in duplicate stop names or some gaps, see Github issue #190. Rendering issues for newer PTvX versions or variations thereof may be possible as well.

XAPI Compatibility Layer

For details and examples see:

Programs/Scripts around Overpass

Python API

Node.js API

  • query-overpass is a simple API wrapper and CLI for Overpass.
  • overpass-ts promise-based API client in Typescript; works in Browser & Node.js; supports JSON & XML/text & stream response

Javascript

  • GLAM Counter provides an example on how to access Overpass API by using simple POST request.

Converters

Talks, Presentations, Workshops

This section lists previous presentation, talks, workshops on Overpass API and related topics. Many presentations are a good start even for beginners with lots of examples.

Date Event Location Title Type Speaker Language Links
June 2023 SOTM FR 2023 Marseille (FR) Overpass Turbo: le couteau suisse des données OSM Presentation Antoine Riche French Video
February 2020 OSMit 2020 Torino (IT) Overpass Turbo: oltre il wizard Presentation Andrea Albani Italian Slides Examples
September 2019 SotMUS 2019 Minneapolis (US) A turbo introduction to Overpass Presentation Minh Nguyễn English Video, Slides, Slides+notes
August 2019 COSCUP 2019 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata track Taipei (TW) Geographic Data for Beginners - An introduction to Overpass API Turbo (Canceled) Presentation Assanges Mandarin
Autumn 2017 Université Rennes (FR) Introduction aux données OpenStreetMap et à l'API Overpass Turbo Presentation Boris Mericskay French Slides
August 2017 COSCUP 2017 Open GIS track Taipei (TW) OpenStreetMap and Overpass Turbo Presentation Thomas Tsai Mandarin Slides, Video
September 2016 SotM 2016 Brussels (BE) Gardening OSM data with Overpass API Presentation Roland Olbricht English Video
July 2016 FOSSGIS 2016 - OSM-Sonntag Salzburg (AT) Overpass-Abfragen jenseits key=value selber schreiben Workshop Nakaner German Slides
May 2016 SOTM FR 2016 Clermont-Ferrand (FR) Démystifier l'API Overpass / Demystify the Overpass API Workshop Antoine Riche French Video
Oct 2015 FOSS@HFT Stuttgart Stuttgart (DE) Parametrisierter Download aus einer weltweiten Geodatenbank (OpenStreetmap) sowie daran anschliessend mit dem Workshop Algorithmik und Technik, Hypothesenprüfung Presentation/Workshop Roland Olbricht German Video
July 2015 AGIT 2015 Salzburg (AT) Overpass API: OpenStreetMap-Daten vorgefiltert beziehen Presentation Roland Olbricht German ?
June 2015 SotM US 2015 NYC (US) Working with OSM diffs / The Overpass API Workshop Roland Olbricht English ?, Abstract
April 2015 geo-spatial.org Cluj (RO) Overpass API: utilizarea datelor OpenStreetMap pentru a realiza hărți tematice Workshop Alex Morega Romanian Workshop materials
March 2015 FOSSGIS 2015 Münster (DE) Schatzsuche in OpenStreetMap Presentation Roland Olbricht German Abstract, Video
March 2015 FOSSGIS 2015 Münster (DE) OpenStreetMap-Daten pflegen und finden mit der Overpass API Workshop (paid) Roland Olbricht German no material available
February 2015 FOSDEM 2015 Bruxelles (BE) Overpass-API - A service to query OpenStreetMap data Presentation Roland Olbricht English Slides, Video
September 2014 Bonn (DE) Overpass-API Seminar bei ZERA Workshop Roland Olbricht German Manuscript, Slides
June 2014 SotM-EU 2014 Karlsruhe (DE) Overpass API v0.7.50 - The temporal dimension Presentation Roland Olbricht English Slides/Video
June 2014 SotM-EU 2014 Karlsruhe (DE) Sparse Editing - Editing Large-Scale Objects Presentation Roland Olbricht English Slides/Video
April 2014 Grazer Linuxtage 2014 Graz (AT) OpenStreetMap Daten nutzen Presentation Martin Raifer German Slides
March 2014 FOSSGIS 2014 Berlin (DE) Daten aus OpenStreetMap extrahieren, analysieren und filtern mit der Overpass API Workshop (paid) Roland Olbricht German no material available
October 2013 Intergeo 2013 Essen (DE) OSM-Daten direkt nutzen mit der Overpass API Presentation Roland Olbricht German Slides
October 2013 OSMit 2013 Rovereto (IT) Overpass Turbo Presentation Martin Raifer Italian Slides
March 2013 FOSSGIS 2013 Rapperswil (CH) Daten aus OpenStreetMap extrahieren, analysieren und filtern mit der Overpass API Workshop Roland Olbricht German Slides
March 2013 FOSSGIS 2013 Rapperswil (CH) overpass turbo - Einfache Analyse von OpenStreetMap Daten Presentation Martin Raifer German Slides, Video, Tagungsband FOSSGIS 2013
March 2013 FOSSGIS 2013 Rapperswil (CH) Mobile Karten erstellen mit OSM, OpenLayers und Overpass API Presentation Roland Olbricht German Slides, Video
December 2012 OSMDE009 OSM Talk: Die Overpass API Podcast Roland Olbricht, Stephan/RadioOSM German Audio
March 2012 FOSSGIS 2012 Berlin (DE) Overpass API Presentation Roland Olbricht German Slides, Tagungsband FOSSGIS 2012
July 2011 SotM-EU 2011 Vienna (AT) Overpass API - an open and slim XAPI alternative Presentation Roland Olbricht English Slides, Video

Books

Olbricht, Roland (2015). “OpenStreetMap in GIScience”. in Jokar Arsanjani, J.; Zipf, A.; Mooney, P. et al.. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. pp. 101-122. ISBN 978-3-319-14280-7.