/useful_overpass_queries

Useful Overpass Queries

Overpass-turbo is a great to quickly get data and stats from OpenStreetMap.

Newer than

  • get the objects which have been added to OpenStreetMap since a specific timestamp
  • copy these lines to overpass-turbo 
    [out:json][timeout:600];
// gather results
(
  node(newer:"2019-04-05T16:00:00Z")({{bbox}});
  way(newer:"2019-04-05T16:00:00Z")({{bbox}});
  relation(newer:"2019-04-05T16:00:00Z")({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out meta;
>;
out skel qt;
  • adjust the timestamp
  • draw a bounding box for the area you are interested in