X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/2f4eca8c46d96f7a4dce6808baa18915d5b8d5a4..35efe3b41ceb525565c230b42d953b794d03fe5e:/docs/admin/Import.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/admin/Import.md b/docs/admin/Import.md index 6b417ff2..2a9a86e6 100644 --- a/docs/admin/Import.md +++ b/docs/admin/Import.md @@ -83,15 +83,19 @@ The file is about 400MB and adds around 4GB to the Nominatim database. `nominatim refresh --wiki-data --importance`. Updating importances for a planet can take a couple of hours. -### Great Britain, USA postcodes +### External postcodes -Nominatim can use postcodes from an external source to improve searches that -involve a GB or US postcode. This data can be optionally downloaded into the -project directory: +Nominatim can use postcodes from an external source to improve searching with +postcodes. We provide precomputed postcodes sets for the US (using TIGER data) +and the UK (using the [CodePoint OpenData set](https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/CodePointOpen). +This data can be optionally downloaded into the project directory: cd $PROJECT_DIR - wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/gb_postcode_data.sql.gz - wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/us_postcode_data.sql.gz + wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/gb_postcodes.csv.gz + wget https://www.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). ## Choosing the data to import @@ -274,33 +278,3 @@ you also need to import these key phrases like this: Note that this command downloads the phrases from the wiki link above. You need internet access for the step. - - -## Installing Tiger housenumber data for the US - -Nominatim is able to use the official [TIGER](https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html) -address set to complement the OSM house number data in the US. You can add -TIGER data to your own Nominatim instance by following these steps. The -entire US adds about 10GB to your database. - - 1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2020 data: - - cd $PROJECT_DIR - wget https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2020-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz - - 2. Import the data into your Nominatim database: - - nominatim add-data --tiger-data tiger2020-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz - - 3. Enable use of the Tiger data in your `.env` by adding: - - echo NOMINATIM_USE_US_TIGER_DATA=yes >> .env - - 4. Apply the new settings: - - nominatim refresh --functions - - -See the [developer's guide](../develop/data-sources.md#us-census-tiger) for more -information on how the data got preprocessed. -