I had something different in my mind: just a quick download of some terrain features, for some area, from the OSM website. But you, as I understand it, are suggesting that I download the full OSM data for an area, set up a database, import file into DB via GDAL and enquire DB using the set of tools provided by GDAL. Queries can be made also on the huge file downloaded but that's going to be slow depending on area size.

Firstly, thanks for hinting - for the second time - about GDAL which this time, made me read a gentle introduction to it (in particular this one: https://medium.com/planet-stories/a-gentle-introduction-to-gdal-part-1-a3253eb96082).

Secondly, don't you think that there is scope for what I am proposing if someone does not want to go the database way? For example, when one wants a quick way to search for say the traffic lights in an area in a script.

In reply to Re^2: OpenStreetMap API : Worker and Plugins architecture by bliako
in thread OpenStreetMap API : Worker and Plugins architecture by bliako

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