1 # Nominatim - Frontend Library
3 Nominatim is a tool to search OpenStreetMap data
4 by name and address (geocoding) and to generate synthetic addresses of
5 OSM points (reverse geocoding).
7 This module implements the library for searching a Nominatim database
8 imported with the [`nominatim-db`](https://pypi.org/project/nominatim-db/) package.
12 To install the Nominatim API from pypi, run:
14 pip install nominatim-api
16 ## Running a Nominatim server
18 You need Falcon or Starlette to run Nominatim as a service, as well as
19 an ASGI-capable server like uvicorn. To install them from pypi run:
21 pip install falcon uvicorn
23 You need to have a Nominatim database imported with the 'nominatim-db'
24 package. Go to the project directory, then run uvicorn as:
26 uvicorn --factory nominatim.server.falcon.server:run_wsgi
30 The full documentation for the Nominatim library can be found at:
31 https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/library/Getting-Started/
33 The v1 API of the server is documented at:
34 https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/api/Overview/
38 The source code is available under a GPLv3 license.