One bounding box for the whole query

When a query has several statements for the same region, the [bbox:…] setting applies a bounding box to every statement that has no other location filter.

The query

[out:json][timeout:25][bbox:46.94,7.43,46.96,7.46];
(
  node["amenity"="bench"];
  node["amenity"="waste_basket"];
);
out;

Run it

Live result from overpass.ch, cached for up to 12 hours. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

How it works

1. [bbox:46.94,7.43,46.96,7.46] sets south, west, north and east for the whole query.
2. The parentheses form a union: the results of both statements are combined.
3. out; prints the combined set.

Variations

• A statement with its own area or bounding box ignores the global one.
• Overpass Turbo fills in {{bbox}} with the visible map, which is handy for testing.

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.