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how to find intersections from OpenStreetMap?

How to extract intersections in the OpenStreetMap? I need the longitude and latitude of the intersections, thanks!

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jw_wu Avatar asked Sep 03 '12 02:09

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There has been a similar question here. There is no direct API call to retrieve intersections. But you can query all ways in a given bounding box (for example directly via the API or via the Overpass API) and look for nodes shared by two or more ways as explained in the other answer.

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scai Avatar answered Oct 19 '22 23:10

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