On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:23, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not very familiar with the internal workings of Nominatim but I > do know that it takes some very serious hardware to build a database > from the ground up using an OSM planet file. I believe this is why the > pre-indexed feature came to be. It allows you to maintain a nominatim > database without overly expensive equipment. As far as I know, > MapQuest Open is currently the only source of pre-indexed data. Have > you read their pages about it? > > http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/nominatim/indexed > > From that page, there is a link to the developer guide which has > additional details. Although looking through there it seems like their > service may be broken. The last full dump is from March and the last > diff is from October... >
Since the MQ server http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ hasn't been updated since august, that comes as no surprise, http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4035 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
