+Importing a new database
+========================
+
+The following instructions explain how to create a Nominatim database
+from an OSM planet file and how to keep the database up to date. It
+is assumed that you have already sucessfully installed the Nominatim
+software itself, if not return to the [prerequisites page](Prerequisites.md).
+
+Configuration setup in settings/local.php
+-----------------------------------------
+
+There are lots of configuration settings you can tweak. Have a look
+at `settings/settings.php` for a full list. Most should have a sensible default.
+If you plan to import a large dataset (e.g. Europe, North America, planet),
+you should also enable flatnode storage of node locations. With this
+setting enabled, node coordinates are stored in a simple file instead
+of the database. This will save you import time and disk storage.
+Add to your settings/local.php:
+
+ @define('CONST_Osm2pgsql_Flatnode_File', '/path/to/flatnode.file');
+
+
+Downloading additional data
+---------------------------
+
+### Wikipedia rankings
+
+Wikipedia can be used as an optional auxiliary data source to help indicate
+the importance of osm features. Nominatim will work without this information
+but it will improve the quality of the results if this is installed.
+This data is available as a binary download:
+
+ cd $NOMINATIM_SOURCE_DIR/data
+ wget http://www.nominatim.org/data/wikipedia_article.sql.bin
+ wget http://www.nominatim.org/data/wikipedia_redirect.sql.bin
+
+Combined the 2 files are around 1.5GB and add around 30GB to the install
+size of nominatim. They also increase the install time by an hour or so.
+
+### UK postcodes
+
+Nominatim can use postcodes from an external source to improve searches that involve a UK postcode. This data can be optionally downloaded:
+
+ cd $NOMINATIM_SOURCE_DIR/data
+ wget http://www.nominatim.org/data/gb_postcode_data.sql.gz
+
+
+Initial Import of the Data
+--------------------------
+
+**Important:** first try the import with a small excerpt, for example from Geofabrik.
+
+Download the data to import and load the data with the following command:
+
+ ./utils/setup.php --osm-file <your data file> --all [--osm2pgsql-cache 28000] 2>&1 | tee setup.log
+
+The --osm2pgsql-cache parameter is optional but strongly recommended for
+planet imports. It sets the node cache size for the osm2pgsql import part
+(see -C parameter in osm2pgsql help). 28GB are recommended for a full planet
+imports, for excerpts you can use less.
+Adapt to your available RAM to avoid swapping.
+
+The import will take as little as an hour for a small country extract
+and as much as 10 days for a full-scale planet import on less powerful
+hardware.
+
+
+Loading Additional Datasets
+---------------------------
+
+The following commands will create additional entries for countries and POI searches:
+
+ ./utils/specialphrases.php --countries > data/specialphrases_countries.sql
+ psql -d nominatim -f data/specialphrases_countries.sql
+ ./utils/specialphrases.php --wiki-import > data/specialphrases.sql
+ psql -d nominatim -f data/specialphrases.sql
+