From 4e39877cb6a2950db04e22701b46348dbd961b83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: trypy <trypy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 09:17:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Substitute post for get.  Received 414 error when requesting
 large poly query.

http://www.overpass-api.de/command_line.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_(HTTP)
---
 overpass/api.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/overpass/api.py b/overpass/api.py
index 0764f85d681..3b6c7861b39 100644
--- a/overpass/api.py
+++ b/overpass/api.py
@@ -83,11 +83,12 @@ def _GetFromOverpass(self, query):
         payload = {"data": query}
 
         try:
-            r = requests.get(
+            r = requests.post(
                 self.endpoint,
-                params=payload,
+                data=payload,
                 timeout=self.timeout
             )
+            
         except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
             raise TimeoutError(self._timeout)