The usage of "Place"-city locations

[haugekugga14]

Hey everyone, I’m new to momepy and I’m struggling with the correct way to specify city locations while using OSMnx. For example, I followed the tutorial and used:

tags = {"building": True}
gdf = ox.features_from_place("Kahla, Germany", tags=tags)
gdf_projected = ox.projection.project_gdf(gdf)

This works perfectly, and I can plot the buildings successfully.

But when I change the location to something like:
gdf = ox.features_from_place("Rotterdam, Netherlands", tags=tags)

It throws an error. 😔

Furthermore, I’m trying to extract data for Shatin, one of the districts in Hong Kong. I’m unsure if I should write it as "Shatin, Hong Kong" or "Sha Tin District, Hong Kong" (or maybe something else entirely). I just don’t know the correct syntax for locations, and I keep getting errors.

[jGaboardi]

This does not relate to momepy, but usage of osmnx. Since this seems to be a usage issue of osmnx (not an actual bug) I suggest searching for a solution on Stack Overflow.

cc @gboeing