# Result handling
-The search functions of the Nominatim API always return a result object that
-contains the full raw information about the place that is available in the
+The search functions of the Nominatim API always return a result object
+with the raw information about the place that is available in the
database. This section discusses data types used in the results and utility
functions that allow further processing of the results.
### Sources
-Nominatim takes the result data from multiple souces. The `source_table` field
-in the result describes, from which source the result was retrived.
+Nominatim takes the result data from multiple sources. The `source_table` field
+in the result describes, from which source the result was retrieved.
-::: nominatim.api.SourceTable
+::: nominatim_api.SourceTable
options:
heading_level: 6
members_order: source
When the `address_details` parameter is set, then functions return not
only information about the result place but also about the place that
-make up the address. This information is almost always required, when you
+make up the address. This information is almost always required when you
want to present the user with a human-readable description of the result.
See also [Localization](#localization) below.
The address details are available in the `address_rows` field as a ordered
list of `AddressLine` objects with the country information last. The list also
contains the result place itself and some artificial entries, for example,
-for the housenumber or the country code. This makes processing and creating
-a full address easiert.
+for the house number or the country code. This makes processing and creating
+a full address easier.
-::: nominatim.api.AddressLine
+::: nominatim_api.AddressLine
options:
heading_level: 6
members_order: source
terms are split into terms for the name of the place and search terms for
its address.
-::: nominatim.api.WordInfo
+::: nominatim_api.WordInfo
options:
heading_level: 6
### Locale
-::: nominatim.api.Locales
+::: nominatim_api.Locales
options:
heading_level: 6