results when using Nominatim in the browser versus in a command-line tool
like wget or curl. The command-line tools
usually don't send any Accept-Language header, prompting Nominatim
- to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contratry always
+ to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contrary always
send the currently chosen browser language.
### Result restriction
|-----------| ----- | ------- |
| countrycodes | comma-separated list of country codes | _unset_ |
-Filer that limits the search results to one or more countries.
+Filter that limits the search results to one or more countries.
The country code must be the
[ISO 3166-1alpha2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2) code
of the country, e.g. `gb` for the United Kingdom, `de` for Germany.
This parameter should not be confused with the 'country' parameter of
the structured query. The 'country' parameter contains a search term
and will be handled with some fuzziness. The `countrycodes` parameter
- is a hard filter and as such should be prefered. Having both parameters
+ is a hard filter and as such should be preferred. Having both parameters
in the same query will work. If the parameters contradict each other,
the search will come up empty.
| Parameter | Value | Default |
|-----------| ----- | ------- |
-| layers | comma-separated list of: `address`, `poi`, `railway`, `natural`, `manmade` | _unset_ (no restriction) |
+| layer | comma-separated list of: `address`, `poi`, `railway`, `natural`, `manmade` | _unset_ (no restriction) |
-The layers filter allows to select places by themes.
+The layer filter allows to select places by themes.
The `address` layer contains all places that make up an address:
address points with house numbers, streets, inhabited places (suburbs, villages,
Note that in Nominatim's standard configuration, only very few railway
features are imported into the database.
-The `natural` layer collects feautures like rivers, lakes and mountains. While
+The `natural` layer collects features like rivers, lakes and mountains while
the `manmade` layer functions as a catch-all for features not covered by the
other layers.
settlement selects any human inhabited feature from 'state' down to
'neighbourhood'.
-When featureType ist set, then results are automatically restricted
+When featureType is set, then results are automatically restricted
to the address layer (see above).
!!! tip
| Parameter | Value | Default |
|-----------| ----- | ------- |
-| exclude_place_ids | comma-separeted list of place ids |
+| exclude_place_ids | comma-separated list of place ids |
If you do not want certain OSM objects to appear in the search
result, give a comma separated list of the `place_id`s you want to skip.
| bounded | 0 or 1 | 0 |
When set to 1, then it turns the 'viewbox' parameter (see above) into
-a filter paramter, excluding any results outside the viewbox.
+a filter parameter, excluding any results outside the viewbox.
When `bounded=1` is given and the viewbox is small enough, then an amenity-only
search is allowed. Give the special keyword for the amenity in square
|-----------| ----- | ------- |
| polygon_threshold | floating-point number | 0.0 |
-When one og the polygon_* outputs is chosen, return a simplified version
+When one of the polygon_* outputs is chosen, return a simplified version
of the output geometry. The parameter describes the
tolerance in degrees with which the geometry may differ from the original
geometry. Topology is preserved in the geometry.
object in reality. The simplest case is a street being split into many
different OSM ways due to different characteristics. Nominatim will
attempt to detect such duplicates and only return one match. Setting
-this parameter is set to 0 disables this deduplication mechanism and
+this parameter to 0 disables this deduplication mechanism and
ensures that all results are returned.
| Parameter | Value | Default |
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