## Downloading additional data
-### Wikipedia rankings
+### Wikipedia/Wikidata rankings
Wikipedia can be used as an optional auxiliary data source to help indicate
the importance of OSM features. Nominatim will work without this information
This data is available as a binary download:
cd $NOMINATIM_SOURCE_DIR/data
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/wikipedia_article.sql.bin
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/wikipedia_redirect.sql.bin
+ wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/wikimedia-importance.sql.gz
-Combined the 2 files are around 1.5GB and add around 30GB to the install
-size of Nominatim. They also increase the install time by an hour or so.
+The file is about 400MB and adds around 4GB to Nominatim database.
-*NOTE:* you'll need to download the Wikipedia rankings before performing
-the initial import of the data if you want the rankings applied to the
-loaded data.
+*NOTE:* if you forgot to download the wikipedia rankings, you can also add
+them after the import by running `./utils/setup.php --import-wikipedia-articles`
+and then `./utils/update.php --recompute-importance`.
-### UK postcodes
+### Great Britain, USA postcodes
-Nominatim can use postcodes from an external source to improve searches that involve a UK postcode. This data can be optionally downloaded:
+Nominatim can use postcodes from an external source to improve searches that
+involve a GB or US postcode. This data can be optionally downloaded:
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
## Choosing the Data to Import
TIGER data to your own Nominatim instance by following these steps. The
entire US adds about 10GB to your database.
- 1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2018 data and unpack it into the
+ 1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2019 data and unpack it into the
data directory in your Nominatim sources:
-```sh
- cd Nominatim/data
- wget https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2018-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
- tar xf tiger2018-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
-```
+ cd Nominatim/data
+ wget https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2019-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
+ tar xf tiger2019-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
`data-source/us-tiger/README.md` explains how the data got preprocessed.
2. Import the data into your Nominatim database:
-```sh
- ./utils/setup.php --import-tiger-data
-```
+ ./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:
#### Installing the newest version of Pyosmium
-It is recommended to install Pyosmium via pip. Run (as the same user who
-will later run the updates):
+It is recommended to install Pyosmium via pip. Make sure to use python3.
+Run (as the same user who will later run the updates):
```sh
-pip install --user osmium
+pip3 install --user osmium
```
-Nominatim needs a tool called `pyosmium-get-updates`, which comes with
+Nominatim needs a tool called `pyosmium-get-updates` which comes with
Pyosmium. You need to tell Nominatim where to find it. Add the
following line to your `settings/local.php`: