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](../customize/Postcodes.md).
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.