Schools are tagged amenity=school, usually on the school grounds. Kindergartens, colleges and universities have their own tags.
The query
[out:json][timeout:60]; area["name"="Amsterdam"]["admin_level"="8"]->.a; nwr["amenity"="school"](area.a); out center;
Run it
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How it works
- Dutch municipalities have admin_level 8.
out center;returns the centre of each school site.
Variations
- All education at once:
nwr["amenity"~"^(kindergarten|school|college|university)$"].
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.