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I am trying to send a simple request to https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter but I am getting a parser error.
{{geocodeArea:Oregon}}->.searchArea;
(
nwr["waterway"="waterfall"](area.searchArea);
);
out center;
Error: line 1: parse error: Unknown type "{"
Error: line 1: parse error: An empty query is not allowed
Error: line 1: parse error: ';' expected - '{' found.
Does the API not support the geocodeArea option? This exact code works on overpass turbo.
{{geocodeArea:Oregon}} is syntactic sugar that was invented by overpass turbo (the web frontend).
Overpass API (the backend) doesn't know anything about those shortcuts.
See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_turbo/Extended_Overpass_Turbo_Queries for more details.
