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The highway key is being used more and more for non-ways these days. This clashes with Nominatim's assumption that essentially everything that has a highway tag can be used as the street part of the address. Change the default rank of highway objects to 30 to avoid this. Only the known values for streets keep the rank 26 and are now listed explicitly.
Nominatim
Nominatim (from the Latin, 'by name') is a tool to search OpenStreetMap data by name and address (geocoding) and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM points (reverse geocoding). An instance with up-to-date data can be found at https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org. Nominatim is also used as one of the sources for the Search box on the OpenStreetMap home page.
Documentation
The documentation of the latest development version is in the
docs/ subdirectory. A HTML version can be found at
https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/ .
Installation
The latest stable release can be downloaded from https://nominatim.org. There you can also find installation instructions for the release, as well as an extensive Troubleshooting/FAQ section.
Detailed installation instructions for current master can be found at nominatim.org as well.
A quick summary of the necessary steps:
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Compile Nominatim:
mkdir build cd build cmake .. make sudo make install -
Create a project directory, get OSM data and import:
mkdir nominatim-project cd nominatim-project nominatim import --osm-file <your planet file> -
Point your webserver to the nominatim-project/website directory.
License
The source code is available under a GPLv2 license.
Contributing
Contributions, bugreport and pull requests are welcome. For details see contribution guide.
Questions and help
For questions, community help and discussions you can use the Github discussions forum or join the geocoding mailing list.