Merge pull request #2476 from lonvia/harmonize-configuration-file-settings

[nominatim.git] / nominatim / clicmd / index.py

diff --git a/nominatim/clicmd/index.py b/nominatim/clicmd/index.py
index ea95e4565270a72dad8b9cdd2c609f51ee27a9d3..c38dfb1c6114090ed9310d8d6a3d138179396c3b 100644 (file)
--- a/nominatim/clicmd/index.py
+++ b/nominatim/clicmd/index.py
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ from nominatim.db.connection import connect
 class UpdateIndex:
     """\
     Reindex all new and modified data.
+
+    Indexing is the process of computing the address and search terms for
+    the places in the database. Every time data is added or changed, indexing
+    needs to be run. Imports and replication updates automatically take care
+    of indexing. For other cases, this function allows to run indexing manually.
     """
 
     @staticmethod