3 Nominatim indexes named (or numbered) features with the OSM data set and a subset of other unnamed features (pubs, hotels, churches, etc)
5 Search terms are processed first left to right and then right to left if that fails.
7 Both searches will work: [pilkington avenue, birmingham](//nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=pilkington+avenue,birmingham), [birmingham, pilkington avenue](//nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=birmingham,+pilkington+avenue)
9 (Commas are optional, but improve performance by reducing the complexity of the search.)
11 Where house numbers have been defined for an area they should be used: [135 pilkington avenue, birmingham](//nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=135+pilkington+avenue,+birmingham)
14 Various keywords are translated into searches for specific osm tags (e.g. Pub => amenity=pub). A current list of [special phrases](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special_Phrases) processed is available.
19 https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?<params>
20 https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/<query>?<params>
23 * `format=[html|xml|json|jsonv2]`
29 * `json_callback=<string>`
31 * Wrap json output in a callback function (JSONP) i.e. `<string>(<json>)`
33 * `accept-language=<browser language string>`
35 * Preferred language order for showing search results, overrides the value specified in the "Accept-Language" HTTP header.
36 * Either uses standard rfc2616 accept-language string or a simple comma separated list of language codes.
40 * Query string to search for.
41 * Alternatively can be entered as:
43 * `street=<housenumber> <streetname>`
48 * `postalcode=<postalcode>`
50 **(experimental)** Alternative query string format for structured requests.
51 Structured requests are faster and require fewer server resources. **Do not combine with `q=<query>` parameter**.
53 * `countrycodes=<countrycode>[,<countrycode>][,<countrycode>]...`
55 * Limit search results to a specific country (or a list of countries).
56 * `<countrycode>` should be the ISO 3166-1alpha2 code, e.g. `gb` for the United Kingdom, `de` for Germany, etc.
58 * `viewbox=<x1>,<y1>,<x2>,<y2>`
59 * The preferred area to find search results. Any two corner points of the box are accepted in any order as long as they span a real box.
63 * Restrict the results to only items contained with the viewbox (see above).
64 * Restricting the results to the bounding box also enables searching by amenity only.
65 * For example a search query of just `"[pub]"` would normally be rejected but with `bounded=1` will result in a list of items matching within the bounding box.
69 * Output polygon outlines for items found **(deprecated, use one of the polygon_* parameters instead)**
71 * `addressdetails=[0|1]`
73 * Include a breakdown of the address into elements
75 * `email=<valid email address>`
77 * If you are making large numbers of request please include a valid email address or alternatively include your email address as part of the User-Agent string.
78 * This information will be kept confidential and only used to contact you in the event of a problem, see [Usage Policy](https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/) for more details.
80 * `exclude_place_ids=<place_id,[place_id],[place_id]`
82 * If you do not want certain openstreetmap objects to appear in the search result, give a comma separated list of the place_id's you want to skip. This can be used to broaden search results. For example, if a previous query only returned a few results, then including those here would cause the search to return other, less accurate, matches (if possible)
86 * Limit the number of returned results.
90 * Sometimes you have several objects in OSM identifying the same place or object in reality. The simplest case is a street being split in many different OSM ways due to different characteristics.
91 * Nominatim will attempt to detect such duplicates and only return one match; this is controlled by the dedupe parameter which defaults to 1. Since the limit is, for reasons of efficiency, enforced before and not after de-duplicating, it is possible that de-duplicating leaves you with less results than requested.
95 * Output assorted developer debug information. Data on internals of nominatim "Search Loop" logic, and SQL queries. The output is (rough) HTML format. This overrides the specified machine readable format.
98 * Output geometry of results in geojson format.
101 * Output geometry of results in kml format.
104 * Output geometry of results in svg format.
107 * Output geometry of results as a WKT.
110 * Include additional information in the result if available, e.g. wikipedia link, opening hours.
113 * Include a list of alternative names in the results.
114 * These may include language variants, references, operator and brand.
118 * [https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=135+pilkington+avenue,+birmingham&format=xml&polygon=1&addressdetails=1](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=135+pilkington+avenue,+birmingham&format=xml&polygon=1&addressdetails=1)
119 * [https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/135%20pilkington%20avenue,%20birmingham?format=xml&polygon=1&addressdetails=1](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/135%20pilkington%20avenue,%20birmingham?format=xml&polygon=1&addressdetails=1)
120 * [https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/gb/birmingham/pilkington%20avenue/135?format=xml&polygon=1&addressdetails=1](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/gb/birmingham/pilkington%20avenue/135?format=xml&polygon=1&addressdetails=1)
123 <searchresults timestamp="Sat, 07 Nov 09 14:42:10 +0000" querystring="135 pilkington, avenue birmingham" polygon="true">
125 place_id="1620612" osm_type="node" osm_id="452010817"
126 boundingbox="52.548641204834,52.5488433837891,-1.81612110137939,-1.81592094898224"
127 polygonpoints="[['-1.81592098644987','52.5487429714954'],['-1.81592290792183','52.5487234624632'],...]"
128 lat="52.5487429714954" lon="-1.81602098644987"
129 display_name="135, Pilkington Avenue, Wylde Green, City of Birmingham, West Midlands (county), B72, United Kingdom"
130 class="place" type="house">
131 <house_number>135</house_number>
132 <road>Pilkington Avenue</road>
133 <village>Wylde Green</village>
134 <town>Sutton Coldfield</town>
135 <city>City of Birmingham</city>
136 <county>West Midlands (county)</county>
137 <postcode>B72</postcode>
138 <country>United Kingdom</country>
139 <country_code>gb</country_code>
144 * [https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/Unter%20den%20Linden%201%20Berlin?format=json&addressdetails=1&limit=1&polygon_svg=1](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/Unter%20den%20Linden%201%20Berlin?format=json&addressdetails=1&limit=1&polygon_svg=1)
150 "city_district": "Mitte",
151 "construction": "Unter den Linden",
152 "continent": "European Union",
153 "country": "Deutschland",
154 "country_code": "de",
156 "neighbourhood": "Scheunenviertel",
158 "public_building": "Kommandantenhaus",
169 "display_name": "Kommandantenhaus, 1, Unter den Linden, Scheunenviertel, Mitte, Berlin, 10117, Deutschland, European Union",
170 "importance": 0.73606775332943,
171 "lat": "52.51719785",
172 "licence": "Data \u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
173 "lon": "13.3978352028938",
174 "osm_id": "15976890",
176 "place_id": "30848715",
177 "svg": "M 13.397511 -52.517283599999999 L 13.397829400000001 -52.517299800000004 13.398131599999999 -52.517315099999998 13.398159400000001 -52.517112099999999 13.3975388 -52.517080700000001 Z",
178 "type": "public_building"
182 * [https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/?format=json&addressdetails=1&q=bakery+in+berlin+wedding&format=json&limit=1](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/?format=json&addressdetails=1&q=bakery+in+berlin+wedding&format=json&limit=1)
187 "bakery": "B\u00e4cker Kamps",
188 "city_district": "Mitte",
189 "continent": "European Union",
190 "country": "Deutschland",
191 "country_code": "de",
192 "footway": "Bahnsteig U6",
193 "neighbourhood": "Sprengelkiez",
205 "display_name": "B\u00e4cker Kamps, Bahnsteig U6, Sprengelkiez, Wedding, Mitte, Berlin, 13353, Deutschland, European Union",
206 "icon": "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/images/mapicons/shopping_bakery.p.20.png",
209 "licence": "Data \u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
211 "osm_id": "317179427",
213 "place_id": "1453068",