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Query shortcuts

In order to allow for querying Overpass with the extents of the MapLibre viewport, Ultra replaces any occurences of {{bbox}} in the query with the bounding box in the format expected by the Overpass API.

For example:

[bbox:{{bbox}}];
nwr[shop];
out center;

Other formats

If you need to specify your bounding box in a different format, for example for an HTTP GeoJSON API or Postpass, you can specify just the specific lat/lon vaulues or a comma-delimited set of values.

Short form

The short form is wrapped it double curly braces and consists of a string of one or more of the letters n/s/e/w which corespond to the north/south-most latitudes and east/west-most longitudes.

This means you can use simple 1-character shortcuts like:

  • {{s}}
  • {{n}}
  • {{e}}
  • {{w}}

Or a longer string like {{wsen}} which is equivalent to {{w}}{{s}}{{e}}{{n}}.

Example

Long form

The original long form of he individual min and max of both latitude and longitude are also available:

  • {{south}}
  • {{north}}
  • {{east}}
  • {{west}}