Telecom masts and towers

Telecom towers carry tower:type=communication, on man_made=mast or man_made=tower.

The query

[out:json][timeout:60];
area["ISO3166-1"="NL"][admin_level=2]->.nl;
nwr["tower:type"="communication"](area.nl)(50.5,2.5,54.0,7.5);
out center;

Run it

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How it works

1. Searching for the tower:type alone covers both masts and towers.
2. The country boundary of the Netherlands includes the Caribbean islands of the kingdom, such as Aruba and Bonaire. The bounding box (50.5,2.5,54.0,7.5) keeps the European part.

Variations

• Only mobile phone masts: add ["communication:mobile_phone"="yes"].

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.