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Is a tool to search OSM data by name and address and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM points (reverse geocoding).

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Add custom data into Nominatim geocoding search?

I have installed Nominatim on my local server to receive addresses from long/lat. I would like to add custom data to the search itself. I would like to store locations of the rooms of our buildings. ...
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Import csv data to local nominatim/photon installation

I have some additional address data (.csv file) that I would like to import to my photon/nominatim installation. Is there some way to do this? I cannot upload the dataset to OSM because it is not open ...
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How to remove a marker from a Leaflet map?

I'm currently making a website where I'm using Leaflet 1.7.1 and Nominatim API and VueJS 3 and I'm trying to delete the marker after I search an address. When I search the address the first time ...
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How to avoid geopy time out problem with nominatim?

I am using geopy with nominatim to get cities names from geographic coordinates. I am using the below code : for index,row in data.iterrows(): georeverse = geolocator.reverse locationdep = ...
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How to tune the performance of Nominatim Reverse Geocoding Application

Running the query directly to the PostgreSQL takes 3-8ms. The PostgreSQL can handle 500 concurrent connections. The Apache server is running on 8 core CPUs. Analyzing the Apache access logs: There are ...
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Missing OSM Points after importing osm.pbf into PostGIS DB

Can you tell me how to import OSM data into PostGIS database without lose any data? I am using map extracts from https://mapzen.com . At first I download Raw OpenStreetMap datasets in PBF, but after ...
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Overpass api intersection

I have a lat-lon point, translated to a street name via nominatim, and I want to find the intersecting streets to retrieve the user something like this: 123rd St, between 456th Bv and 789th Rd ...
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Nominatim versus Google's geocoder address aproximation

I have been trying to display the details of the route that my program is retrieving, precisely the street names. I get the route results in gps coordinates and i decided to use MapQuest's Nominatim ...
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Limit data imported into PostGIS database?

I am building a web application in which members will be able to find other members in their area. This is your typical "nearest neighbor" search which I'll perform using their latitude and longitude....
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DefinitivelyTyped nominatim search result type?

When I use a query like this: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/?addressdetails=1&q=bakery+in+berlin+wedding&format=json&limit=1 (from https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/api/...
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python osmnx geocode_to_gdf Nominatim not working while web-based openstreetmaps does

I am trying to geocode a list of objects (mostly road names) to their coordinates from python wth osmnx.geocode_to_gdf. The problem is that I often get returned with the following error message (...
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How to format or access properties of reverse geocoding results with Nominatim in GeoPandas

I'm working on a small app where I want to collect the nearest street address from geotagged images. I have currently succeeded in pulling a PostGIS table into a geodataframe and running my points ...
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How to get city updates for nominatim

I'm using nominatim as a forward/reverse geocoder. My search target is a city. Nominatim only provides the update mechanism for countries. My current solution is to use something like osmium to get ...
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Geocoding search bar input into city with Nominatim and Leaflet

Is it possible to transform a search bar into a geocoder with Nominatim and Leaflet? Using the search bar I would like to search for a city to view weather information and view it on the map. In the ...
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Error when importing merged osm.pbf files into nominatim's PostgreSQL database

Im using Nominatim 3.3 (https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker/tree/master/3.3) within docker. I already imported succesfully 2 regions (not together, my PostgreSQL database contained one region ...
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Filter Nominatim data by Class or Type

Is it possible to prevent certain results based on "class" and/or "types"? For example, I do not want any results that have the following class or types: class: natural, highway type: peak, footway, ...
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GeoPandas geocode error when using Nominatim

I am following this lesson about Geocoding. I have entered: # Import necessary modules import pandas as pd # Filepath fp = r"addresses.txt" # Read the data data = pd.read_csv(fp, sep=';') data....
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Finding layout of points on road?

The problem I'm trying to solve is finding layout of street lights on a street. The street lights can be arranged in the following layout: one-side, two-side opposite, staggered, or median, etc. as ...
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Nominatim - from Point to Polygon (town, city boundary)

I'm struggling with Nominatim's Search and Reverse. What I want, is to reverse geocode a Point and get a (Multi)Polygon. An administrative boundary (town, city scale preferred). reverse geocoding: ...
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Nominatim where does it get children info

I am trying to build a reverse geocoder that returns all the areas that a geo location point is located in. Neighbourhoods being the lowest level i am interested in. I am using the Europe OSM file ...
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Nominatim search result difference between IE and Chrome

When searching for specific addresses in Nominatim I see different results in IE compared to Chrome. For example: Im Singes 1 63225 Langen Deutschland http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=...
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Move Nominatim data from one system to another system

We have a Ubantu 14 server which is running the Nominatim service with postgres database. Now we are tring to upgrade the Ubantu to latest, not able to upgrade because the postgres is installed ...
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Forgot to enable hierarchical updates on my Nominatim database. How can I fix stale data?

I have been running a Nominatim server for a few months. The server is updated with Osmosis. Over time, I have seen my data slowly get out of date. I believe the reason is that I forgot to enable ...
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Maintain Nominatim with my own data

I just started using google map API but found some restrictions on daily request limit. After some research I found I can use open street map, but has its own request restrictions. To resolve I ...
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Address feature missing in Nominatim returned data

When you search http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org the details page shows a lot of information and some are missing when querying nominatim. For example when I search for "choisy" : http:/nominatim....
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Finding relation between Nominatim row and gb_postcode table row?

Currently I have PgAdmin 3 open with a copy of the Nominatim DB I processed on a Linux virtual machine. I imported the gb_postcode.sql database successfully from the Nominatim documentation but I'm ...
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Reverse Geocoding, Nominatim, TIGER & residential house numbers

Coming across Nominatim/Installation it says: In the US, the OSM instance of Nominatim uses TIGER address data to complement the still sparse OSM house number data. Basically I'm wonder how it ...
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Nominatim installation - network flood

I've tried to install Nominatim with a planet.pnf file to a server which is hosted at Dacentec(36gb ram, 16 threads, 1x2TB 7200 RPM hard). The installation was going well, it was already indexing data ...
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Nominatim does not respect countrycode

Possible duplicate I have a question about Nominatim, but the OSM forum currently does not accept new registrations... I want to limit my search results to a specific country, so I am using the ...
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Disk usage for Europe (OpenStreetMap)

I would like to know a disk space usage for Europe extract (Nominatim, tile server, both data structures and rendered tiles). I have currently map server with an european country extract and I tried ...
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Can't upload files to database by Nominatim

I was trying upload geofabric's netherlands-latest file into Nominatim's database. I used bellow command and all was fine: ./utils/setup.php --osm-file maps/netherlands-latest.osm.pbf --all 2>&1 | ...
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Nominatim with osm2pgsql for rhel 6

I tried configure&make Nominatim on rhel6.5 but Nominatim compiled whithout osm2pgsql. I also tried complied osm2pgql by handle with ./autogen, ./configure make and got many errors like: ...
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Permanent link to a Nominatim address?

I want to be able to link landmarks from a private database to their respective OSM representations (nodes, ways or relations). One of the approaches I have seen to get permanent-ish reliable link to ...
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Error when installing Nominatim on Ubuntu

Due to a large amount of geocoding tasks I want to install Nominatim on my local machine following the official manual. I installed the required software without problems, however when installing ...
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Limit Nominatim results tp specific country

I want to limit the search in Nominatim to a specific country and was trying this code: mapPanel = new GeoExt.MapPanel({ border: true, region: "center", map: map, zoom: 7, layers:...
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Always getting "unable to geocode" in Nominatim?

I've installed Nominatim and everything seems to work fine, but whenever I try to use the reverse geocoding API, all I get is "unable to geocode". Strangely, the search function works well and returns ...
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Callback method geocode items nominatim not work

function addr_search() { var inp = document.getElementById("addr"); $.getJSON('http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=json&limit=5&q=' + inp.value, function(data) { ...
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Add polygons to PostGres to be queried by Nominatim

I'm trying to build out a geocoder that also returns the correct legislative district information from this data: http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html I've got OSM data imported into a ...
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Nominatim 4.4.0 motorway_link not imported despite editing import.lua files

Hi I have nominatim installed on a ubuntu VM which I use for reverse geo-lookup. All is going well, but nominatim doesn't return the correct object when I do a reverse lookup for a highway entrance (...
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How can I find out if a specific GeoLocation is on a motorway, in a urban area or outside a urban area (using OSM Nominatim)?

I have a list of geo-locations (latitude, longitude) as a track of a vehicle driving around the country. I need to find out how many kilometers did the vehicle drove on the motorway, inside urban ...
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Finding appropriate osmfilter syntax for city, state/province, and postal code mappings for geocoding

I have a goal of running a Nominatim instance that's capable of geocoding at the city / postal code level. My understanding (which could be wrong since I'm pretty new to OSM data) is that I can filter ...
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How to get extent of district when select by search nominatim

I using search nominatim function from ol-ext library. I want to get extent from search results of county or city when selecting but I haven't found the solution yet. This is my code: update // ...
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Limit search in OpenLayers with Nominatim to a certain city

I'm using ol.control.SearchNominatim for address search. However, I would like to limit the search to only one country, state and city. For example: country = Brazil, state = Sao Paulo, city ​​= Sao ...
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Nominatim does not provide zipcode for some latitude/longitude values

I am using Nominatim from the GeoPy Python library to obtain Zip Code given Latitude and Longitude. def get_zip_code(x): geolocator = geopy.Nominatim(user_agent="check_1") location =...
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Failed to establish connection with 'nominatim.openstreetmap.org'. Max retries exceeded with url

For some reason I cannot establish connection with nominatim.openstreetmap.org. Error texts says Max retries exceeded with url but it works fine on my Jupyter Notebook. The issue comes when I run my ...
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Python - Getting coordinates without restrictions

I'm using Python for getting coordinates (latitude & longitude) for a comprehensive list of cities and postal codes (thousands of rows, nearing 10 000 rows). At the moment I'm using geopy and ...
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How to retrieve oneway taxiways from Overpas API?

I have was able to make a query to http://overpass-turbo.eu/ where I request the taxiways of a specific airport like this: [out:xml]/*fixed by auto repair*/[timeout:25]; // fetch area “airport” to ...
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Extremely slow Nominatim install with Docker

I am trying to install Nominatim based off of a dockerized version of the tool found here: https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker. I was successful with installing dockerised Nominatim with a ...
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Why does QGIS / MMQGIS / Geocoding always show a connection error to Google Maps although I want to use Nominatim?

I am currently trying to geocode addresses from a CSV file using QGIS (2.18.22) via MMQGIS (2018.1.2) and the Nominatim Geocoder. Unfortunately there is always a strange error. Why does Nominatim ...
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Obtaining label-node instead of city boundry polygon when using OSM Place Search in QGIS

I am using OSM Place Search Plugin in QGIS for searching and importing places, cities, towns etc. from Openstreetmap database into my projects. Great Plugin by the way. But I have a big problem. When ...
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