Is there a way to query area type based on location (e.g. Road, Water, Building)

CesiumJS
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Hi,

I am wondering if there is an open geo data source that may return the type of area given a location? i.e. a type of meta-data of the location.

The use case would be clicking on a location on a map and having a response returned saying something like:

-"you have clicked on a road"
-"you have clicked on a building"
-"you have clicked on water"
-"you have clicked on <unknown>"

My initial feeling is there may be a way to do this especially considering that something like Open street map would need to know how to color each tile based on what object it is drawing.

Any ideas?

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Perhaps I should have googled more before posting. This seems like it could do the trick.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Language_Guide