### 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.
If you want to be able to search for places by their type through
[special key phrases](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special_Phrases)
-you also need to enable these key phrases like this:
+you also need to import these key phrases like this:
- nominatim special-phrases --from-wiki > specialphrases.sql
- psql -d nominatim -f specialphrases.sql
+ nominatim special-phrases --import-from-wiki
Note that this command downloads the phrases from the wiki link above. You
need internet access for the step.
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: