# Importing the Database
The following instructions explain how to create a Nominatim database
-from an OSM planet file and how to keep the database up to date. It
-is assumed that you have already successfully installed the Nominatim
-software itself, if not return to the [installation page](Installation.md).
+from an OSM planet file. It is assumed that you have already successfully
+installed the Nominatim software itself and the `nominatim` tool can be found
+in your `PATH`. If this is not the case, return to the
+[installation page](Installation.md).
-## Configuration setup in settings/local.php
+## Creating the project directory
-The Nominatim server can be customized via the file `settings/local.php`
-in the build directory. Note that this is a PHP file, so it must always
-start like this:
+Before you start the import, you should create a project directory for your
+new database installation. This directory receives all data that is related
+to a single Nominatim setup: configuration, extra data, etc. Create a project
+directory apart from the Nominatim software and change into the directory:
- <?php
+```
+mkdir ~/nominatim-planet
+cd ~/nominatim-planet
+```
+
+In the following, we refer to the project directory as `$PROJECT_DIR`. To be
+able to copy&paste instructions, you can export the appropriate variable:
+
+```
+export PROJECT_DIR=~/nominatim-planet
+```
+
+The Nominatim tool assumes per default that the current working directory is
+the project directory but you may explicitly state a different directory using
+the `--project-dir` parameter. The following instructions assume that you run
+all commands from the project directory.
+
+!!! tip "Migration Tip"
+
+ Nominatim used to be run directly from the build directory until version 3.6.
+ Essentially, the build directory functioned as the project directory
+ for the database installation. This setup still works and can be useful for
+ development purposes. It is not recommended anymore for production setups.
+ Create a project directory that is separate from the Nominatim software.
+
+### Configuration setup in `.env`
-without any leading spaces.
+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.
-There are lots of configuration settings you can tweak. Have a look
-at `settings/default.php` for a full list. Most should have a sensible default.
+There are lots of configuration settings you can tweak. A full reference
+can be found in the chapter [Configuration Settings](../customize/Settings.md).
+Most should have a sensible default.
#### Flatnode files
you should also enable flatnode storage of node locations. With this
setting enabled, node coordinates are stored in a simple file instead
of the database. This will save you import time and disk storage.
-Add to your `settings/local.php`:
+Add to your `.env`:
- @define('CONST_Osm2pgsql_Flatnode_File', '/path/to/flatnode.file');
+ NOMINATIM_FLATNODE_FILE="/path/to/flatnode.file"
Replace the second part with a suitable path on your system and make sure
the directory exists. There should be at least 75GB of free space.
Wikipedia can be used as an optional auxiliary data source to help indicate
the importance of OSM features. Nominatim will work without this information
but it will improve the quality of the results if this is installed.
-This data is available as a binary download:
+This data is available as a binary download. Put it into your project directory:
- cd $NOMINATIM_SOURCE_DIR/data
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/wikimedia-importance.sql.gz
+ cd $PROJECT_DIR
+ wget https://nominatim.org/data/wikimedia-importance.sql.gz
The file is about 400MB and adds around 4GB to the Nominatim database.
!!! tip
- If you forgot to download the wikipedia rankings, you can also add
- importances after the import. Download the files, then run
- `./utils/setup.php --import-wikipedia-articles`
- and `./utils/update.php --recompute-importance`.
+ If you forgot to download the wikipedia rankings, then you can
+ also add importances after the import. Download the SQL files, then
+ run `nominatim refresh --wiki-data --importance`. Updating
+ importances for a planet will take a couple of hours.
-### Great Britain, USA postcodes
+### External postcodes
-Nominatim can use postcodes from an external source to improve searches that
-involve a GB or US postcode. This data can be optionally downloaded:
+Nominatim can use postcodes from an external source to improve searching with
+postcodes. We provide precomputed postcodes sets for the US (using TIGER data)
+and the UK (using the [CodePoint OpenData set](https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/CodePointOpen).
+This data can be optionally downloaded into the project directory:
- cd $NOMINATIM_SOURCE_DIR/data
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/gb_postcode_data.sql.gz
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/us_postcode_data.sql.gz
+ cd $PROJECT_DIR
+ wget https://nominatim.org/data/gb_postcodes.csv.gz
+ wget https://nominatim.org/data/us_postcodes.csv.gz
+
+You can also add your own custom postcode sources, see
+[Customization of postcodes](../customize/Postcodes.md).
## Choosing the data to import
are a good way to reduce the database size and import time.
[Geofabrik](https://download.geofabrik.de) offers extracts for most countries.
They even have daily updates which can be used with the update process described
-[in the next section](../Update). There are also
+[in the next section](Update.md). There are also
[other providers for extracts](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Downloading).
Please be aware that some extracts are not cut exactly along the country
About half of the data in Nominatim's database is not really used for serving
the API. It is only there to allow the data to be updated from the latest
changes from OSM. For many uses these dynamic updates are not really required.
-If you don't plan to apply updates, the dynamic part of the database can be
-safely dropped using the following command:
+If you don't plan to apply updates, you can run the import with the
+`--no-updates` parameter. This will drop the dynamic part of the database as
+soon as it is not required anymore.
+
+You can also drop the dynamic part later using the following command:
```
-./utils/setup.php --drop
+nominatim freeze
```
Note that you still need to provide for sufficient disk space for the initial
import. So this option is particularly interesting if you plan to transfer the
database or reuse the space later.
+!!! warning
+ The data structure for updates are also required when adding additional data
+ after the import, for example [TIGER housenumber data](../customize/Tiger.md).
+ If you plan to use those, you must not use the `--no-updates` parameter.
+ Do a normal import, add the external data and once you are done with
+ everything run `nominatim freeze`.
+
+
### Reverse-only Imports
If you only want to use the Nominatim database for reverse lookups or
if you plan to use the installation only for exports to a
-[photon](https://photon.komoot.de/) database, then you can set up a database
+[photon](https://photon.komoot.io/) database, then you can set up a database
without search indexes. Add `--reverse-only` to your setup command above.
This saves about 5% of disk space.
boundaries, places, streets, addresses and POI data. There are also other
import styles available which only read selected data:
-* **settings/import-admin.style**
+* **admin**
Only import administrative boundaries and places.
-* **settings/import-street.style**
+* **street**
Like the admin style but also adds streets.
-* **settings/import-address.style**
+* **address**
Import all data necessary to compute addresses down to house number level.
-* **settings/import-full.style**
+* **full**
Default style that also includes points of interest.
-* **settings/import-extratags.style**
+* **extratags**
Like the full style but also adds most of the OSM tags into the extratags
column.
-The style can be changed with the configuration `CONST_Import_Style`.
+The style can be changed with the configuration `NOMINATIM_IMPORT_STYLE`.
To give you an idea of the impact of using the different styles, the table
below gives rough estimates of the final database size after import of a
extratags | 54h | 650 GB | 340 GB
You can also customize the styles further.
-A [description of the style format](../develop/Import.md#configuring-the-import)
-can be found in the development section.
+A [description of the style format](../customize/Import-Styles.md)
+can be found in the customization guide.
## Initial import of the data
[Geofabrik](https://download.geofabrik.de).
Download the data to import. Then issue the following command
-from the **build directory** to start the import:
+from the **project directory** to start the import:
```sh
-./utils/setup.php --osm-file <data file> --all 2>&1 | tee setup.log
+nominatim import --osm-file <data file> 2>&1 | tee setup.log
```
+The **project directory** is the one that you have set up at the beginning.
+See [creating the project directory](#creating-the-project-directory).
+
### Notes on full planet imports
Even on a perfectly configured machine
in terms of RAM usage. osm2pgsql and PostgreSQL are running in parallel at
this point. PostgreSQL blocks at least the part of RAM that has been configured
with the `shared_buffers` parameter during
-[PostgreSQL tuning](Installation#postgresql-tuning)
+[PostgreSQL tuning](Installation.md#postgresql-tuning)
and needs some memory on top of that. osm2pgsql needs at least 2GB of RAM for
its internal data structures, potentially more when it has to process very large
relations. In addition it needs to maintain a cache for node locations. The size
above. If the system starts swapping or you are getting out-of-memory errors,
reduce the cache size or even consider using a flatnode file.
-### Verify the import
-Run this script to verify all required tables and indices got created successfully.
+### Testing the installation
-```sh
-./utils/check_import_finished.php
-```
-
-### Setting up the website
-
-Run the following command to set up the configuration file for the API frontend
-`settings/settings-frontend.php`. These settings are used in website/*.php files.
+Run this script to verify that all required tables and indices got created
+successfully.
```sh
-./utils/setup.php --setup-website
+nominatim admin --check-database
```
-!!! Note
- This step is not necessary if you use `--all` option while setting up the DB.
Now you can try out your installation by running:
```sh
-make serve
+nominatim serve
```
This runs a small test server normally used for development. You can use it
`http://localhost:8088/status.php` and you should see the message `OK`.
You can also run a search query, e.g. `http://localhost:8088/search.php?q=Berlin`.
+Note that search query is not supported for reverse-only imports. You can run a
+reverse query, e.g. `http://localhost:8088/reverse.php?lat=27.1750090510034&lon=78.04209025`.
+
To run Nominatim via webservers like Apache or nginx, please read the
[Deployment chapter](Deployment.md).
-## Tuning the database
+## Adding search through category phrases
-Accurate word frequency information for search terms helps PostgreSQL's query
-planner to make the right decisions. Recomputing them can improve the performance
-of forward geocoding in particular under high load. To recompute word counts run:
+If you want to be able to search for places by their type through
+[special phrases](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special_Phrases)
+you also need to import these key phrases like this:
```sh
-./utils/update.php --recompute-word-counts
+nominatim special-phrases --import-from-wiki
```
-This will take a couple of hours for a full planet installation. You can
-also defer that step to a later point in time when you realise that
-performance becomes an issue. Just make sure that updates are stopped before
-running this function.
-
-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:
-
- ./utils/specialphrases.php --wiki-import > specialphrases.sql
- psql -d nominatim -f specialphrases.sql
-
Note that this command downloads the phrases from the wiki link above. You
need internet access for the step.
-
-## Installing Tiger housenumber data for the US
-
-Nominatim is able to use the official [TIGER](https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html)
-address set to complement the OSM house number data in the US. You can add
-TIGER data to your own Nominatim instance by following these steps. The
-entire US adds about 10GB to your database.
-
- 1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2019 data and unpack it into the
- data directory in your Nominatim sources:
-
- cd Nominatim/data
- wget https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2019-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
- tar xf tiger2019-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
-
- 2. Import the data into your Nominatim database:
-
- ./utils/setup.php --import-tiger-data
-
- 3. Enable use of the Tiger data in your `settings/local.php` by adding:
-
- @define('CONST_Use_US_Tiger_Data', true);
-
- 4. Apply the new settings:
-
-```sh
- ./utils/setup.php --create-functions --enable-diff-updates --create-partition-functions
-```
-
-
-See the [developer's guide](../develop/data-sources.md#us-census-tiger) for more
-information on how the data got preprocessed.
-
+You can also import special phrases from a csv file, for more
+information please see the [Customization part](../customize/Special-Phrases.md).
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