goodformandspectacle/londonmuseums — pull request #1 by bdon (2014-08-03 02:20:39+00:00)
Title: add example overpass query for museums in and around London.

[Overpass](http://overpass-api.de/) is a nice API for querying all of OSM. You can paste this query `overpass_query.txt` into the [Overpass Turbo](http://overpass-turbo.eu/) user interface and get all entities that are tagged `tourism=museum`:

![screen shot 2014-08-02 at 7 13 04 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/77501/3789644/3bb66b8e-1ab4-11e4-92ba-309be4c9c7ea.png)

I've chosen an arbitrary bounding box in the query that includes London and surrounding areas. Of the results, some museums are tagged as one-dimensional _nodes_, others have building outlines:

![screen shot 2014-08-02 at 7 13 26 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/77501/3789645/4ad91382-1ab4-11e4-82f0-ac43b64aa1d2.png)

Inside Overpass Turbo you can also go to `Export > As GeoJSON...` to get a file that you can manipulate in other programs.