Bob carefully examines the bike in the parking space, trying to find his bike. “Aha!” exclaims Bob, as he grabs the red bike we can only assume is his.
Now that Bob is on his bike, he now needs to go the observatory to find his wallet. Since we already know Bob has a bad sense of direction (I mean, he did get lost!) it’d be best to show Bob the main road he needs to take to reach the observatory.
If you look at the map viewer closely, you will see that between the bicycle parking spot and the observatory tower is the main road “Innstraße”. as the main road Bob needs to take in order to reach the observatory. How can we possibly show this? By using node, and having [name="Innstraße"] as a filter perhaps?
Not quite. Remember that nodes are strictly for points of interest. They can’t map roads, as that doesn’t really exist as a single point.
area we can use another OSM element type here to query for the road. Namely, we can use the way statement.way statement filtered to “Innstraße”. You can follow the same form that node and area statements take. Keep in mind that you would have to surround the filter key “Innstraße” with quotes, as it contains the special character “ß”.out, you would have to use the custom modificator geom, so that the statement reads out geom;