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 `Nominatim/settings/env.default` 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
This data is available as a binary download. Put it into your project directory:
cd $PROJECT_DIR
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/wikimedia-importance.sql.gz
+ 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
- `nominatim refresh --wiki-data --importance`. Updating importances for
- a planet can take a couple of hours.
+ 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.
### External postcodes
This data can be optionally downloaded into the project directory:
cd $PROJECT_DIR
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/gb_postcodes.csv.gz
- wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/us_postcodes.csv.gz
+ 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](Customization.md#external-postcode-data).
+[Customization of postcodes](../customize/Postcodes.md).
## Choosing the data to import
database or reuse the space later.
!!! warning
- The datastructure for updates are also required when adding additional data
+ 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
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.
To run Nominatim via webservers like Apache or nginx, please read the
[Deployment chapter](Deployment.md).
-## Tuning the database
-
-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:
-
-```sh
-nominatim refresh --word-counts
-```
-
-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.
+## Adding search through category phrases
If you want to be able to search for places by their type through
[special phrases](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special_Phrases)