Disused and closed features

Closed shops and abandoned railways keep their old tags with a prefix, such as disused:shop=bakery. A key regular expression finds all of them.

The query

[out:json][timeout:60];
area["name"="Bern"]["admin_level"="8"]["wikidata"="Q70"]->.a;
nwr[~"^disused:"~"."](area.a);
out center;

Run it

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How it works

1. Another place called Bern also has admin_level 8. ["wikidata"="Q70"] picks the Swiss capital.
2. [~"^disused:"~"."] matches any key starting with disused: and any value.
3. Other lifecycle prefixes: abandoned:, demolished:, was:, construction:.

Variations

• Buildings under construction: nwr["building"="construction"].

Run it from your code

curl https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter \
  --data-urlencode 'data@query.overpassql'

import requests

query = open("query.overpassql").read()
r = requests.post("https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter",
                  data={"data": query}, timeout=120)
r.raise_for_status()
print(r.json()["elements"][:3])

const res = await fetch("https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter", {
  method: "POST",
  body: new URLSearchParams({ data: query }),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(await res.text());
console.log(await res.json());

Save the query as query.overpassql. It works the same in Overpass Turbo, QGIS and JOSM.