Questions tagged [nominatim]
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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User_Agent argument in Nominatim in GeoPy
I am trying to understand argument in package geopy and Nominatim geocoder.
from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent="specify_your_app_name_here")
from their ...
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Difference between osm_id and place_id?
I'd like to know what the difference is between place_id and osm_id. I understand osm_id is some sort of reference number + more convenient for OSM to find location v. lat/lng. If this is the case, ...
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How to implement place auto-complete using nominatim?
I want to auto complete like Google Place but I don't want to use Google Place API. I got nominatim auto-complete example but it's not working in Windows 8 because it's implemented in node.js
Can ...
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How to obtain openstreet API key for nominatim (r)?
I wanted to use r package nominatim for my program written in R.
I tried to run very simple example osm_search('Cracow University of Economics'), however I got the following error:
Please provide a ...
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Avoid time out error Nominatim Geopy OpenStreetMap
How to avoid the GeocoderTimedOut('Service timed out') error in GeoPy using the OSM Nominatim geocoder? I am not interested in using an exception and skip some entries. I already use a time delay of 1....
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Geocoding to shape instead of coordinate
Geocoding to a shape instead of a point
The project I'm currently working on is Find-A-Record. We are geocoding genealogical record collections and storing them in a spatial index (browse our blog if ...
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Max retries exceeded with URL in Nominatim with GeoPy
I'm trying to get a country name by lat lon (reverse encoding) using Python. I got to Nominatim with GeoPy which worked great two times but now I keep getting Max retries exceeded error.
My code:
from ...
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Different searching results in local Nominatim and openstreetmap.org
I've just installed Nominatim using this guide. I've successfully import fresh osm.bz2 file with data for Saint-Petersburg, Russia into my postgresql database.
Nominatim search script works, but it ...
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Seeking hosted nominatim services
Are there hosted nominatim services that can do all it's duties (particularly reverse-geocoding) all over the world?
We have a high volume of lookups (we dont want to be throttled) but we want to ...
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Leaflet marker/icon help
I am trying to get the default marker NOT to show, but it's coming up WITH the icon that I want, so I have a marker and icon like this:
I'm getting my data from a OSM nomination search result.
if (...
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Can we use existing planet database for Nominatim
i have imported data from the OSM to PGSQL using osm2pgsql for generating tiles,
and now i need to add Nominatim support also, this Nominatim requires the same OSM data. can we use the existing ...
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Definitive list of Nominatim types and categories?
Is there a definitive list somewhere on the interwebs of the category and type values in Nominatim?
I've been doing some Googling but found nothing as yet.
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Bulk reverse geocoding with Geopy using built-in rate_limiter
I have a dataset with latitude and longitude coordinates, and I would like to get actual addresses for those. Since I'm using Geopy and Nominatim, I am limited to 1 request per second.
Although the ...
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OSM Place Search in QGIS not working anymore?
We've used OSM Place Search plugin daily with QGIS 2.2, 2.6 and 2.8 and it's been great.
However, it stopped working last week for myself and several other inter-office users. We enter search text, ...
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How can I decrease size of geodatabase "Nominatim"?
I downloaded Nominatim http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation. The database size is more than 400 GB. The speed of geocoding is very slow. I want to increase it.
For example, I ...
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MMQGIS Geocode is failing in QGIS 3
I am facing troubles geocoding the CSV file in QGIS 3 with MMQGIS (OpenStreetMap).
Images below are showing my workflow and the problem that I am encountering.
I am getting the following error:
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Find parent place using nominatim
I have a locally hosted Nominatim service. I'm trying to reverse geocode a lat, lon to a place hierarchy.
E.g.
https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=30.284780%2C+-97.738831&viewbox=-...
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Cannot get OSM tags when downloading data with osmnx functions which are based on Nominatim requests
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I am trying to download some footway graph from OpenStreetMap (OSM) using osmnx.
Here is a piece of code:
import os, sys
import pandas as pd
import geopandas as gpd
import matplotlib.cm as cm
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Permission Denied when installing openstreetmap server
I am installing a tile server from this link on my Ubuntu Machine 14.04. The problem I am facing is in this line :
./make.py
cd ../OSMBright/
carto project.mml > OSMBright.xml
Whenever I enter '...
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Combining location from Nominatim with Overpass API query using Python
I try to get the geocodes coordinates from the location(nominatim) into the Overpass query.
Is there an easy way to do this?
import json
import requests
from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
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Osm2pgsql failed due to error when I try to import data into PostgreSQL
I am using the following link to install openstreetmap server on my ubuntu 14.04 server. I have followed their tutorial line by line and installed most of the dependencies and everything. When I try ...
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Geocoding with Latitude and Longitude in OpenLayers3
I have Longitude and Latitude, I would like to connect to Geocoding or Nominatim and get the address of these Lat and Lon.
I want to do it in OpenLayers 3 using OSM.
With help from @ThomasG77, I ...
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Getting output in different language in GeoPy
I am using django-cities and GeoPy. I am trying to get city name, id and country name, id based on given latitude and longitude.
Normally this is how you can get city and country using GeoPy.
from ...
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Postgis is Broken after installing Nominatim
I followed Nominatim Tutorial to install PostGIS and after that I can't access PostGIS at all
I already trying reinstalling and installing everything over and over again with no success.
Everytime I ...
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Write Nominatim-like geocode query using only PostGIS functions?
I'm new to PostGIS and was anticipating being able to write geocode queries using only the functions provided by PostGIS. However, once I loaded my database using osm2pgsql and discovered tables like ...
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Openstreetmap Nominatim web service API - Result language
I notices something strange:
When I execute simple request:
https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=xml&lat=45&lon=10&zoom=18&addressdetails=0
From the PC web browser for ...
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Sending valid UserAgent or Referer when Nominatim reverse geocode gets blocked?
I have a php page that requests reverse geocoding data from Nominatim OSM server. It was working for over a year. Recently started blocking my requests with the following message:
You have been ...
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Getting list of result from GeoPy Nominatim
How can I get list of possible result in Nominatim?
My code is
geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent="[email protected]")
location = geolocator.geocode("School")
location.raw
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Python: Geopy's Nominatim reverse geocoding: Access Type (e.g. amenity)
I have some corrdinates (lat/long) and I want to get further information on them. When using the nominatim homepage, I get quite a good overview of the available information, which exist. But when ...
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Reverse geocoding Nominatim results?
I need to obtain street intersections from reverse geocoded lat/long, where there is no house number information.
I have a tile server and Nominatim running in Ubuntu 12.04 virtualbox.
I followed ...
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Nominatim API for long streets
I'm using the Nominatim API in GeoJSON method to retrieve streets poly line.
For short streets I have no issue and the results are good.
However for long streets the data I'm getting back in the JSON ...
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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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Getting state but want country with Nominatim geocoder in GeoPy
I use the GeoPy library in Python to find the location of countries. I use country names as input, like:
geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent="[email protected]")
geolocator.geocode(&...
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Difference between Nominatim and Overpass-Api? [closed]
What is the difference between Nominatim and Overpass-Api?
What can't I do with Nominatim that I can do with the overpass-api ?
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Latitude/Longitude to city and zip, batch convertion
I have ~10 mln lat/lon points, and I need to extract city and zip code from them.
I can do this with OpenStreetMap using the Nominatim API (using something like http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/...
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How to put the two regions and countries data on OpenStreetMap into postgresql?
I'm developing a WebGIS in Linux development platform that cannot use internet and need to deal with maps and positioning.
I have used nominatim on OpenStreetMap to implement it. I use postgresql ...
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How to get nodes in a particular city? [Open Street Maps - Overpass API / Nominatim]
I wish to get nodes that belong to a particular city. I tried doing a radius search around the latitude and longitude of the city but that is just an approximation. Moreover the radius varies from one ...
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Location names autocomplete service with custom Nominatim installation
I'm looking to host an autocomplete service. I have installed Nominatim and imported the planet file with Nominatim. It took about 3 days to dump data into database and an additional 7 days to run ...
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Control search Nominatim in OpenLayers: change properties
I'm using the example http://viglino.github.io/ol-ext/examples/search/map.control.searchnominatim.html
to search with Nominatim.
How can I configure the control to perform the search in
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I received a max limit on Geocoding address using MMQGIS when choosing OSM/Nominatim
I was trying to run a geocode process (~20,000 addresses) using MMQGIS and the OSM/Nominatim web service.
On the first run I input my CSV file and designated all parameters. However, I hit a max ...
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How does Nominatim know my address which is not (as far as I can tell) in OSM Database?
I am looking for an additional source for geocoding and reverse geocoding. I went to http://www.openstreetmap.org and clicked the button to query my current location. Nominatim returned a "house" ...
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How Nominatim calculates addresses
I have imported OpenStreetMap data for the country Switzerland via osmosis in my MySQL database.
Now I want to look for a specific address in that database, but I can't find a way to get the whole ...
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OSM import fails due to non-matching PostgreSQL version
I am trying to follow the installation of Nominatim, based on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation#Ubuntu.2FDebian. The command
./utils/setup.php —osm-file <pbf-file> —all —...
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Is it possible to render map tiles with a Nominatim PostGIS database?
I've imported a OSM database using Nominatim's setup.php. Is it possible to use some software to render the tiles using that database, or do I have to re-import in a different database for Mapnik and ...
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Where to get city boundaries without sea area as a geometry polygon?
I am using OpenStreetMap's Nominatim to find out boundary geometry of single cities: Helsinki
That polygon however contains the sea area and I would like to exclude that.
So where could I get city ...
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Android application development by using OpenStreetMap [closed]
I have managed to install my own tile server for one country and we can see the map, it's working.
The END Goal is, we will build a vehicle tracking software by using our tiles.
Currently we are on ...
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Barefoot more Details Road ID
I currently using Barefoot (https://github.com/bmwcarit/barefoot) for several Route Matching tasks.
The installation and usage of Barefoot just worked fine. The matching already works and I got some ...
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Nominatim installation error: Out of memory for node cache dense index
I am installing Nominatim on my Ubuntu server 14.04 through this link and trying to load OSM data into my postgreSQL database. For loading into my database I am using this command as given in the link:...
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Nominatim limit and importance
If I limit the results by nominatim will they be ordered by importance? So if I set ?limit=1 will I get the match with the highest importance?
If not, how can I enforce this?
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