1 # Additional Data Sources
3 This guide explains how data sources other than OpenStreetMap mentioned in
4 the install instructions got obtained and converted.
8 Nominatim uses pre-generated country borders data. In case one imports only
9 a subset of a country. And to assign each place a partition. Nominatim
10 database tables are split into partitions for performance.
12 More details in [osm-search/country-grid-data](https://github.com/osm-search/country-grid-data).
16 For the United States you can choose to import additonal street-level data.
17 The data isn't mixed into OSM data but queried as fallback when no OSM
20 More details in [osm-search/TIGER-data](https://github.com/osm-search/TIGER-data).
24 For Great Britain you can choose to import Royalmail postcode centroids.
26 More details in [osm-search/gb-postcode-data](https://github.com/osm-search/gb-postcode-data).
29 ## Wikipedia & Wikidata rankings
31 Nominatim can import "importance" data of place names. This greatly
32 improves ranking of results.
34 More details in [osm-search/wikipedia-wikidata](https://github.com/osm-search/wikipedia-wikidata).