3 This page contains generic installation instructions for Nominatim and its
4 prerequisites. There are also step-by-step instructions available for
5 the following operating systems:
7 * [Ubuntu 22.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-22.md)
8 * [Ubuntu 20.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-20.md)
10 These OS-specific instructions can also be found in executable form
11 in the `vagrant/` directory.
13 Users have created instructions for other frameworks. We haven't tested those
14 and can't offer support.
16 * [Docker](https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker)
17 * [Docker on Kubernetes](https://github.com/peter-evans/nominatim-k8s)
18 * [Kubernetes with Helm](https://github.com/robjuz/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/nominatim/README.md)
19 * [Ansible](https://github.com/synthesio/infra-ansible-nominatim)
26 For larger installations you **must have** PostgreSQL 11+ and PostGIS 3+
27 otherwise import and queries will be slow to the point of being unusable.
28 Query performance has marked improvements with PostgreSQL 13+ and PostGIS 3.2+.
32 * [cmake](https://cmake.org/)
33 * [expat](https://libexpat.github.io/)
34 * [proj](https://proj.org/)
35 * [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/)
36 * [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/)
37 * [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/)
38 * [nlohmann/json](https://json.nlohmann.me/)
39 * [Boost libraries](https://www.boost.org/), including system and filesystem
40 * PostgreSQL client libraries
41 * a recent C++ compiler (gcc 5+ or Clang 3.8+)
43 For running Nominatim:
45 * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.6+ will work, 11+ strongly recommended)
46 * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net) (2.2+ will work, 3.0+ strongly recommended)
47 * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (3.7+)
48 * [Psycopg2](https://www.psycopg.org) (2.7+)
49 * [Python Dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv)
50 * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil)
51 * [Jinja2](https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/)
52 * [SQLAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/) (1.4.31+ with greenlet support)
53 * [asyncpg](https://magicstack.github.io/asyncpg) (0.8+)
54 * [PyICU](https://pypi.org/project/PyICU/)
55 * [PyYaml](https://pyyaml.org/) (5.1+)
56 * [datrie](https://github.com/pytries/datrie)
58 For running continuous updates:
60 * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/)
62 For running the Python frontend:
64 * one of the following web frameworks:
65 * [falcon](https://falconframework.org/) (3.0+)
66 * [starlette](https://www.starlette.io/)
67 * [uvicorn](https://www.uvicorn.org/)
69 For running the legacy PHP frontend:
71 * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.3+)
73 * PHP-intl (bundled with PHP)
76 For dependencies for running tests and building documentation, see
77 the [Development section](../develop/Development-Environment.md).
81 A minimum of 2GB of RAM is required or installation will fail. For a full
82 planet import 128GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report
83 out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM.
85 For a full planet install you will need at least 1TB of hard disk space.
86 Take into account that the OSM database is growing fast.
87 Fast disks are essential. Using NVME disks is recommended.
89 Even on a well configured machine the import of a full planet takes
90 around 2 days. When using traditional SSDs, 4-5 days are more realistic.
92 ## Tuning the PostgreSQL database
94 You might want to tune your PostgreSQL installation so that the later steps
95 make best use of your hardware. You should tune the following parameters in
96 your `postgresql.conf` file.
99 maintenance_work_mem = (10GB)
100 autovacuum_work_mem = 2GB
102 effective_cache_size = (24GB)
103 synchronous_commit = off
105 checkpoint_timeout = 10min
106 checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
108 The numbers in brackets behind some parameters seem to work fine for
109 64GB RAM machine. Adjust to your setup. A higher number for `max_wal_size`
110 means that PostgreSQL needs to run checkpoints less often but it does require
111 the additional space on your disk.
113 Autovacuum must not be switched off because it ensures that the
114 tables are frequently analysed. If your machine has very little memory,
115 you might consider setting:
117 autovacuum_max_workers = 1
119 and even reduce `autovacuum_work_mem` further. This will reduce the amount
120 of memory that autovacuum takes away from the import process.
122 ## Downloading and building Nominatim
124 ### Downloading the latest release
126 You can download the [latest release from nominatim.org](https://nominatim.org/downloads/).
127 The release contains all necessary files. Just unpack it.
129 ### Downloading the latest development version
131 If you want to install latest development version from github, make sure to
132 also check out the osm2pgsql subproject:
135 git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
138 The development version does not include the country grid. Download it separately:
141 wget -O Nominatim/data/country_osm_grid.sql.gz https://nominatim.org/data/country_grid.sql.gz
144 ### Building Nominatim
146 The code must be built in a separate directory. Create the directory and
154 Nominatim uses cmake and make for building. Assuming that you have created the
155 build at the same level as the Nominatim source directory run:
164 The default installation no longer compiles the PostgreSQL module that
165 is needed for the legacy tokenizer from older Nominatim versions. If you
166 are upgrading an older database or want to run the
167 [legacy tokenizer](../customize/Tokenizers.md#legacy-tokenizer) for
168 some other reason, you need to enable the PostgreSQL module via
169 cmake: `cmake -DBUILD_MODULE=on ../Nominatim`. To compile the module
170 you need to have the server development headers for PostgreSQL installed.
171 On Ubuntu/Debian run: `sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-<postgresql version>`
174 Nominatim installs itself into `/usr/local` per default. To choose a different
175 installation directory add `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install root>` to the
176 cmake command. Make sure that the `bin` directory is available in your path
180 export PATH=<install root>/bin:$PATH
183 Now continue with [importing the database](Import.md).