prerequisites. There are also step-by-step instructions available for
the following operating systems:
- * [Ubuntu 18.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-18.md)
- * [Ubuntu 16.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-16.md)
- * [CentOS 7.2](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-7.md)
+ * [Ubuntu 24.04](Install-on-Ubuntu-24.md)
+ * [Ubuntu 22.04](Install-on-Ubuntu-22.md)
These OS-specific instructions can also be found in executable form
in the `vagrant/` directory.
* [Docker](https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker)
* [Docker on Kubernetes](https://github.com/peter-evans/nominatim-k8s)
+ * [Kubernetes with Helm](https://github.com/robjuz/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/nominatim/README.md)
* [Ansible](https://github.com/synthesio/infra-ansible-nominatim)
## Prerequisites
### Software
-For compiling:
+!!! Warning
+ For larger installations you **must have** PostgreSQL 11+ and PostGIS 3+
+ otherwise import and queries will be slow to the point of being unusable.
+ Query performance has marked improvements with PostgreSQL 13+ and PostGIS 3.2+.
+
+For running Nominatim:
+
+ * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.6+ will work, 11+ strongly recommended)
+ * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net) (2.2+ will work, 3.0+ strongly recommended)
+ * [osm2pgsql](https://osm2pgsql.org) (1.8+, optional when building with CMake)
+ * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (3.7+)
+
+Furthermore the following Python libraries are required:
+
+ * [Psycopg3](https://www.psycopg.org)
+ * [Python Dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv)
+ * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil)
+ * [Jinja2](https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/)
+ * [PyICU](https://pypi.org/project/PyICU/)
+ * [PyYaml](https://pyyaml.org/) (5.1+)
+ * [datrie](https://github.com/pytries/datrie)
+
+These will be installed automatically when using pip installation.
+
+When using legacy CMake-based installation:
* [cmake](https://cmake.org/)
- * [libxml2](http://xmlsoft.org/)
- * a recent C++ compiler
+ * [expat](https://libexpat.github.io/)
+ * [proj](https://proj.org/)
+ * [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/)
+ * [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/)
+ * [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/)
+ * [nlohmann/json](https://json.nlohmann.me/)
+ * [Boost libraries](https://www.boost.org/), including system and file system
+ * PostgreSQL client libraries
+ * a recent C++ compiler (gcc 5+ or Clang 3.8+)
-Nominatim comes with its own version of osm2pgsql. See the
-[osm2pgsql README](https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/blob/master/README.md#building)
-for additional dependencies required for compiling osm2pgsql.
+For running continuous updates:
-For running tests:
+ * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/)
- * [behave](http://pythonhosted.org/behave/)
- * [Psycopg2](https://initd.org/psycopg)
- * [nose](https://nose.readthedocs.io)
- * [phpunit](https://phpunit.de)
+For running the Python frontend:
-For running Nominatim:
+ * [SQLAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/) (1.4.31+ with greenlet support)
+ * [asyncpg](https://magicstack.github.io/asyncpg) (0.8+, only when using SQLAlchemy < 2.0)
+ * one of the following web frameworks:
+ * [falcon](https://falconframework.org/) (3.0+)
+ * [starlette](https://www.starlette.io/)
+ * [uvicorn](https://www.uvicorn.org/)
- * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.3 or later)
- * [PostGIS](https://postgis.org) (2.2 or later)
- * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.0 or later)
+For running the legacy PHP frontend (deprecated, will be removed in Nominatim 5.0):
+
+ * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.3+)
* PHP-pgsql
* PHP-intl (bundled with PHP)
- * a webserver (apache or nginx are recommended)
-For running continuous updates:
- * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/) (with Python 3)
+For dependencies for running tests and building documentation, see
+the [Development section](../develop/Development-Environment.md).
### Hardware
A minimum of 2GB of RAM is required or installation will fail. For a full
-planet import 32GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended.
+planet import 128GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report
+out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM.
-For a full planet install you will need at least 700GB of hard disk space
-(take into account that the OSM database is growing fast). SSD disks
-will help considerably to speed up import and queries.
+For a full planet install you will need at least 1TB of hard disk space.
+Take into account that the OSM database is growing fast.
+Fast disks are essential. Using NVME disks is recommended.
-On a 6-core machine with 32GB RAM and SSDs the import of a full planet takes
-a bit more than 2 days. Without SSDs 7-8 days are more realistic.
+Even on a well configured machine the import of a full planet takes
+around 2.5 days. When using traditional SSDs, 4-5 days are more realistic.
-
-## Setup of the server
-
-### PostgreSQL tuning
+## Tuning the PostgreSQL database
You might want to tune your PostgreSQL installation so that the later steps
make best use of your hardware. You should tune the following parameters in
your `postgresql.conf` file.
- shared_buffers (2GB)
- maintenance_work_mem (10GB)
- work_mem (50MB)
- effective_cache_size (24GB)
+ shared_buffers = 2GB
+ maintenance_work_mem = (10GB)
+ autovacuum_work_mem = 2GB
+ work_mem = (50MB)
synchronous_commit = off
- checkpoint_segments = 100 # only for postgresql <= 9.4
- checkpoint_timeout = 10min
+ max_wal_size = 1GB
+ checkpoint_timeout = 60min
checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
+ random_page_cost = 1.0
+ wal_level = minimal
+ max_wal_senders = 0
The numbers in brackets behind some parameters seem to work fine for
-32GB RAM machine. Adjust to your setup.
+128GB RAM machine. Adjust to your setup. A higher number for `max_wal_size`
+means that PostgreSQL needs to run checkpoints less often but it does require
+the additional space on your disk.
+
+Autovacuum must not be switched off because it ensures that the
+tables are frequently analysed. If your machine has very little memory,
+you might consider setting:
+
+ autovacuum_max_workers = 1
+
+and even reduce `autovacuum_work_mem` further. This will reduce the amount
+of memory that autovacuum takes away from the import process.
+
+## Downloading and building Nominatim
+
+### Downloading the latest release
+
+You can download the [latest release from nominatim.org](https://nominatim.org/downloads/).
+The release contains all necessary files. Just unpack it.
+
+### Downloading the latest development version
+
+If you want to install latest development version from github, make sure to
+also check out the osm2pgsql subproject:
-For the initial import, you should also set:
+```
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
+```
- fsync = off
- full_page_writes = off
+The development version does not include the country grid. Download it separately:
-Don't forget to reenable them after the initial import or you risk database
-corruption. Autovacuum must not be switched off because it ensures that the
-tables are frequently analysed.
+```
+wget -O Nominatim/data/country_osm_grid.sql.gz https://nominatim.org/data/country_grid.sql.gz
+```
-### Webserver setup
+### Building Nominatim
-The `website/` directory in the build directory contains the configured
-website. Include the directory into your webbrowser to serve php files
-from there.
+#### Building the latest development version with pip
-#### Configure for use with Apache
+Nominatim is easiest to run from its own virtual environment. To create one, run:
-Make sure your Apache configuration contains the required permissions for the
-directory and create an alias:
+ sudo apt-get install virtualenv
+ virtualenv /srv/nominatim-venv
- <Directory "/srv/nominatim/build/website">
- Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
- AddType text/html .php
- DirectoryIndex search.php
- Require all granted
- </Directory>
- Alias /nominatim /srv/nominatim/build/website
+To install Nominatim directly from the source tree into the virtual environment, run:
-`/srv/nominatim/build` should be replaced with the location of your
-build directory.
+ /srv/nominatim-venv/bin/pip install packaging/nominatim-{db,api}
-After making changes in the apache config you need to restart apache.
-The website should now be available on http://localhost/nominatim.
+#### Building in legacy CMake mode
-#### Configure for use with Nginx
+!!! warning
+ Installing Nominatim through CMake is now deprecated. The infrastructure
+ will be removed in Nominatim 5.0. Please switch to pip installation.
-Use php-fpm as a deamon for serving PHP cgi. Install php-fpm together with nginx.
+The code must be built in a separate directory. Create the directory and
+change into it.
-By default php listens on a network socket. If you want it to listen to a
-Unix socket instead, change the pool configuration (`pool.d/www.conf`) as
-follows:
+```
+mkdir build
+cd build
+```
- ; Comment out the tcp listener and add the unix socket
- ;listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
- listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
+Nominatim uses cmake and make for building. Assuming that you have created the
+build at the same level as the Nominatim source directory run:
- ; Ensure that the daemon runs as the correct user
- listen.owner = www-data
- listen.group = www-data
- listen.mode = 0666
+```
+cmake ../Nominatim
+make
+sudo make install
+```
-Tell nginx that php files are special and to fastcgi_pass to the php-fpm
-unix socket by adding the location definition to the default configuration.
+!!! warning
+ The default installation no longer compiles the PostgreSQL module that
+ is needed for the legacy tokenizer from older Nominatim versions. If you
+ are upgrading an older database or want to run the
+ [legacy tokenizer](../customize/Tokenizers.md#legacy-tokenizer) for
+ some other reason, you need to enable the PostgreSQL module via
+ cmake: `cmake -DBUILD_MODULE=on ../Nominatim`. To compile the module
+ you need to have the server development headers for PostgreSQL installed.
+ On Ubuntu/Debian run: `sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-<postgresql version>`
+ The legacy tokenizer is deprecated and will be removed in Nominatim 5.0
- root /srv/nominatim/build/website;
- index search.php index.html;
- location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
- fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
- if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
- return 404;
- }
- fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
- fastcgi_index search.php;
- include fastcgi.conf;
- }
-Restart the nginx and php5-fpm services and the website should now be available
-at `http://localhost/`.
+Nominatim installs itself into `/usr/local` per default. To choose a different
+installation directory add `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install root>` to the
+cmake command. Make sure that the `bin` directory is available in your path
+in that case, e.g.
+```
+export PATH=<install root>/bin:$PATH
+```
-Now continue with [importing the database](Import-and-Update.md).
+Now continue with [importing the database](Import.md).
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