I created an instance of the Overpass in a VirtualBox, with an http-server, the overpass-api-dispatcher and downloaded the openstreetmap data. Everything works fine, i get results when i use it in a browser/wget/.. .
But. My machine isn't capable enough to create everytime an answer in less then 30 seconds, so i get often timeouts. When i increase timeout-time in the official overpass-PythonLib, i get another exceptions. I think because of tcp- or http-timeouts.
My question is, how can i start the interpreter directly, without the http- and tcp-levels between? Like
overpass-api/osm-3s_v0.7.53/cgi-bin/interpreter --data "[out:json]\;way[......]..."
At the moment, when i try do this, i get no response of the interpreter-program. It's even not listed in the list of processes.
Just use the osm3s_query binary instead:
bin/osm3s_query < my_query > my_query_result
You need to make sure that the dispatcher process has been started beforehand.