getting a list of the location of all the Tesco supermarkets in the UK – many are misssing?!

Question

Hi I'd like to get a list of the location of all the Tesco supermarkets in the UK into excel. I'm running a query through Overpass Turbo but I'm not getting a full list of results. I shows ~600 nodes but I know there are over 3000 Tesco's in the UK. Here is my query

<osm-script output="xml" timeout="100000">
  <!-- gather results -->
  <union>
    <query type="way">
      <has-kv k="name" v="Tesco"/>
      <bbox-query {{bbox}}/>
    </query>
  </union>
  <!-- print results -->
  <print mode="body"/>
  <recurse type="down"/>
  <print mode="skeleton" order="quadtile"/>
</osm-script>

Am I missing something? Also - can I use a wildcard for the name search? It only returns stores with the exact name "Tesco" rather than "Tesco Express".

Answer 1

This wiki page suggests you can get names that start Tesco by changing v= to regv= if I've understood correctly.

Also, it looks like you are only querying named ways, rather than also checking node POIs and relations.

Finally, I doubt all Tesco stores are mapped. Taginfo can perhaps show you how many to expect

getting a list of the location of all the Tesco supermarkets in the UK – many are misssing?!

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