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I am curious about how roads spread out – in particular how far you can get, if you start at one road and are only allowed to use that road and all its side-roads.

Right now I use Overpass-Turbo with following query to e.g. find "Frankfurter Allee" in Berlin:

// gather results
(
  node["name"="Frankfurter Allee"](52.451172, 13.291531,52.587381, 13.518124);
  way["name"="Frankfurter Allee"](52.451172, 13.291531,52.587381, 13.518124);
  relation["name"="Frankfurter Allee"](52.451172, 13.291531,52.587381, 13.518124);
);

// print results
out body;
>;
out skel qt;

So what I'd like to do is query for a road by name (like above), but receive all connected side-roads.

Is something like that possible? If so, how?

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You could use the following approach: 

way["name"="Frankfurter Allee"](52.451172, 13.291531,52.587381, 13.518124);
out geom;
node(w);                 // get all ways' nodes
way[highway](bn);        // find those highway ways, containing previously found nodes
out geom;

try it in overpass turbo: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/j09

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  • That was exactly what I was searching for! Thank you a lot.
    – st_phan
    Oct 5, 2016 at 8:04
  • Great answer, thank you. It works for my need to locate nearest connecting street. Although I think the first out geom; is unnecessary.
    – terrymorse
    Dec 2, 2021 at 14:28

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