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Why does 'around' work but 'area' doesn't in Overpass Turbo?

I have the following overpass turbo query:

[out:json];
area[name="Zagreb"];
(
  node["tourism"~"museum|gallery"](area);
  node["amenity"~"cafe|bar"](area);
);
out center;

You can run it here: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1hmp

The problem is that it only returns the first node, so the tourism="museum|gallery" in this case, but not the amenity="cafe|bar".

I based my query on this answer, where both nodes get returned(!!!): Find multiple tags around coordinates with Overpass API

[out:json];
(
  node["tourism"~"museum|gallery"](around:500,53.866444, 10.684738);
  node["amenity"~"cafe|bar"](around:500,53.866444, 10.684738);
);
out center;

You can run this original one here: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1hml

Except that I changed the 'around' to the area of name="Zagreb". And this clearly works (although just for one of the nodes).

Does anyone have any ideas how to get both nodes (tourism="museum|gallery" and amenity="cafe|bar") to work within an area?

Thanks so much! Lovro

Solution

  • You need to store the area in a named inputset (below it's named ".myarea"), otherwise the result of the first node statement would overwrite the area in the default inputset (called ._), and would no longer be available for the second node query.

    [out:json];
area[name="Zagreb"]->.myarea;
(
  node["tourism"~"museum|gallery"](area.myarea);
  node["amenity"~"cafe|bar"](area.myarea);
);
out center;

    Quite a frequent issue by the way, and I'm sure there are several other post that already deal with this error.