### Configuration setup in `.env`
-The Nominatim server can be customized via a `.env` in the project directory.
-This is a file in [dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv) format
-which looks the same as variable settings in a standard shell environment.
+The Nominatim server can be customized via an `.env` configuration file in the
+project directory. This is a file in [dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv)
+format which looks the same as variable settings in a standard shell environment.
You can also set the same configuration via environment variables. All
settings have a `NOMINATIM_` prefix to avoid conflicts with other environment
variables.
TIGER data to your own Nominatim instance by following these steps. The
entire US adds about 10GB to your database.
- 1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2020 data and unpack it into your project
- directory:
+ 1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2020 data:
cd $PROJECT_DIR
wget https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2020-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
- tar xf tiger2020-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
2. Import the data into your Nominatim database:
- nominatim add-data --tiger-data tiger
+ nominatim add-data --tiger-data tiger2020-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
3. Enable use of the Tiger data in your `.env` by adding: