Export just the route within bbox from Overpass Turbo, not the tags / way points?

Question

I'd like to

• export just the route from an Overpass Turbo query as GeoJson, and
• ideally just within a specified radius of a set of coordinates.

I have the query below, but this exports tags / waypoints along the way as shown. I want to use the route within leaflet (for which I know I need to Export to GeoJson).

[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
  area[name="West Midlands"];
  way[name ~"^(Bristol Road|Binley Road)"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out body;
>;
out geom qt;

This outputs the following map, where you can see the route and also the circles (its those I want to exclude) that may well be the nodes, but I'm not sure. They may also indicate parts of the route as I can see there are many Features defined as LineStrings. Basically, all I want is the LineStrings.

If anyone knows how to limit to a radius of a specified point for each road, that would be great, but if needs be I can use bbox.

Answer 1

It seems all you have to do is to leave out recourse down >; part of your query (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_QL#Recurse_down_.28.3E.29). Your query would then look like this:

[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
  area[name="West Midlands"];
  way[name ~"^(Bristol Road|Binley Road)"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out body;
out geom qt;

On the Overpass Turbo map you will still see some markers:

But if you drill down (zoom in) enough, they'll disappear:

And if you export result into GeoJSON and then drop it down into https://geojson.io/, you'll see only ways, no points/markers/nodes: