forked from hans/Nominatim
3337515052
Empty relations may indeed appear, if the members of a relation have been deleted but the tags have been retained. That is detected as accidental error and the old geometry is retained in placex while the slim tables contain the new version without members.
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 http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org. Nominatim is also used as one of the
sources for the Search box on the OpenStreetMap home page and powers the search
on the MapQuest Open Initiative websites.
Documentation
=============
More information about Nominatim, including usage and installation instructions,
can be found in the OSM wiki at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
Installation
============
The following instructions is a quick guide to installation. A more detailed guide
how to set up your own instance of Nominatim can be found in the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation
Installation steps:
0. If checking out from git run:
./autogen.sh
1. Compile Nominatim:
./configure [--enable-64bit-ids]
make
2. Get OSM data and import:
./utils/setup.php --osm-file <your planet file> --all
3. Point your webserver to the ./website directory.
License
=======
The source code is available under a GPLv2 license.
Contact and Bugreports
======================
For questions you can join the geocoding mailinglist, see
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
Bugs may be reported on the github project site:
https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim