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Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data

12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2012-09-21 · latest 2024-12-15

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  1. …run an entirely open source geocoding stack of your own. Here's one of the better options for that: https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim I wouldn't recommend it though: it needs a beefy machine and applying updates on an ongoing basis…
    comment by simonw · 2024-12-15 · in Storing Times for Human Events
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    Nominatim: OpenStreetMap geocoding and reverse geocoding API
    story by nateb2022 · 2024-05-15 · 0 comments
  3. …complex queries. Most OSM related projects disable it straight away as it only creates headaches. https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/pull/2559 https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/mas...
    comment by BitPirate · 2023-06-25 · in Btreefs generates executable code at runtime to unpack btree nodes
  4. Run your own: https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim You can find many other open source projects that utilize OSM (and support autocomplete and other features).
    comment by phillipseamore · 2020-12-08 · in What do you use for forward geocoding?
  5. 29 of 309 = 10% https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/
    comment by mtmail · 2018-09-28 · in Ask HN: What percent of PRs on your project has “fix” in the title?
  6. The email list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding List of small https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues?q=is%3Aiss... and larger projects https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/20...
    comment by mtmail · 2018-09-03 · in Ask HN: Have you ever used PL/pgSQL – the PostgreSQL programming language?
  7. …only recommend it if all other options of improving the performance of database queries were tried. https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/blob/master/sql/f...
    comment by mtmail · 2018-09-02 · in Ask HN: Have you ever used PL/pgSQL – the PostgreSQL programming language?
  8. It's different software. openstreetmap.org uses Nominatim: https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim The photon link uses Photon: https://github.com/komoot/photon Nominatim processes OSM data, associating items of interest with features…
    comment by maxerickson · 2018-08-30 · in How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
  9. …not perfectly organized). http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software To your specific question: https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim#installation with a viewbox: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Search
    comment by maxerickson · 2016-07-16 · in How to set up an OpenStreetMap server
  10. …If you need higher granularity, take a look at this OSM project: https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/
    comment by lucaspiller · 2016-05-06 · in Redis 3.2.0 is out
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    One more reason to love Open Source, issue solved in just a few hours
    story by ziodave · 2013-07-01 · 2 comments
  12. And nominatim is open source ( https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim ), so if there's some silly embarassing thing that it gets wrong (like the address of your headquarters), then you can fix it yourself.
    comment by rmc · 2012-09-21 · in The Amazing iOS 6 Maps