diff --git a/utils/specialphrases.php b/utils/specialphrases.php
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+#!/usr/bin/php -Cq
+<?php
+
+        require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)).'/lib/init-cmd.php');
+        ini_set('memory_limit', '800M');
+
+        $aCMDOptions = array(
+                "Import and export special phrases",
+                array('help', 'h', 0, 1, 0, 0, false, 'Show Help'),
+                array('quiet', 'q', 0, 1, 0, 0, 'bool', 'Quiet output'),
+                array('verbose', 'v', 0, 1, 0, 0, 'bool', 'Verbose output'),
+
+                array('wiki-import', '', 0, 1, 0, 0, 'bool', 'Create nominatim db'),
+        );
+        getCmdOpt($_SERVER['argv'], $aCMDOptions, $aCMDResult, true, true);
+
+	$aLanguageIn = array(
+			'af',
+			'ar',
+			'br',
+			'ca',
+			'cs',
+			'de',
+			'en',
+			'es',
+			'et',
+			'eu',
+			'fa',
+			'fi',
+			'fr',
+			'gl',
+			'hr',
+			'hu',
+			'ia',
+			'is',
+			'it',
+			'ja',
+			'mk',
+			'nl',
+			'no',
+			'pl',
+			'ps',
+			'pt',
+			'ru',
+			'sk',
+			'sv',
+			'uk',
+			'vi',
+		);
+
+	if ($aCMDResult['wiki-import'])
+	{
+		foreach($aLanguageIn as $sLanguage)
+		{
+			$sURL = 'http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Export/Nominatim/Special_Phrases/'.strtoupper($sLanguage);
+			$sWikiPageXML = file_get_contents($sURL);
+			if (preg_match_all('#\\| ([^|]+) \\|\\| ([^|]+) \\|\\| ([^|]+) \\|\\| ([\\-YN]) \\|\\| ([\\-YN])#', $sWikiPageXML, $aMatches, PREG_SET_ORDER))
+			{
+				foreach($aMatches as $aMatch)
+				{
+					$sLabel = $aMatch[1];
+					$sClass = $aMatch[2];
+					$sType = $aMatch[3];
+
+					switch(trim($aMatch[4]))
+					{
+					case 'near':
+						echo "select getorcreate_amenityoperator(make_standard_name('".pg_escape_string($sLabel)."'), '$sClass', '$sType', 'near');\n";
+						break;
+					case 'in':
+						echo "select getorcreate_amenityoperator(make_standard_name('".pg_escape_string($sLabel)."'), '$sClass', '$sType','in');\n";
+						break;
+					default:
+						echo "select getorcreate_amenity(make_standard_name('".pg_escape_string($sLabel)."'), '$sClass', '$sType');\n";
+						break;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}