04 - Find nodes by matching tags and their values

This query illustrates other ways to find nodes based on their tags and the values of those tags.

Tags and their values can be filtered by:

  • existence, e.g. whether a tag is or isn't present on the nodes
  • by value, e.g. whether a tag has a specific value
  • by regular expression matching tag values, e.g. whether the value of a tag matches a specific pattern
  • by regular expression matching tag names and values, e.g. where names and values match (different) patterns

Together these provide a lot of flexibility.

Later in the tutorial we'll learn how to do free text searches to find features of the map. But this is an IDE specific extension and not a feature of the basic Overpass API.

Links
Source File04-nodes-has-kv.osm
Authors
  • Leigh Dodds