Extracting shapefile with suburbs of a city from OSM

Question

I never downloaded shapefiles from OpenStreetMap before and now I am trying to download a shapefile of the city of Turin (Italy) with the suburbs polygons encoded in it. I know for sure that the information about suburbs is there in OSM (check here), but I could not manage in any way, using any tool, to download something different from the circoscrizioni areas, which are bigger. If I download the Turin shapefiles from, for example, websites like bbbike I get the usual shapefiles (buldings/landuse/natural/points etc.) but the suburbs are nowhere to be found.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

In OSM, you can see that the suburbs have a key/tag pair of place:suburb.

On Overpass Turbo, you can use that key/tag pair to build a query, which can then be exported into various formats. Overpass does not export directly to shapefile, but a GeoJSON or KML can easily be converted.

You can use the Wizard on Overpass to build your query. It should spit out something like this:

[out:json];
(
  relation["place"="suburb"]({{bbox}});
);
out body;
>;
out skel qt;

This link will run a query for the features you're interested in. Click Export in the top toolbar to choose a format.