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2026-09-24
Public Overpass, your own instance, or a paid one: which fits your job
The free public servers, your own instance, or a paid one: what each costs, what volume it supports, and a quick way to decide which fits your job.
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2026-09-11
Why Overpass works on your laptop but fails from AWS
Three separate causes with three status codes: 406 on stock User-Agents, blocked cloud ranges, and shared-IP rate limits. How to tell them apart in two minutes, verified against the live servers.
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2026-08-27
osmnx: pointing at your own Overpass endpoint
The overpass_url setting, the two settings that actually break on keyed endpoints, and a worked example verified against osmnx 2.1.
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2026-08-24
Get every restaurant in a city as a dataset, free and legally
Build your own POI dataset from OpenStreetMap: a real extraction query, JSON to CSV, what the ODbL lets you keep, and where the data is thin.
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2026-08-20
Overpass 429 errors & rate limits in production
What a 429 actually means, how the public servers' rate limiting works, and how to build a client that stops hitting the limits.