Hi, On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:53:32AM -0400, Christian Béland wrote: > I just installed the Nominatim geocoder and loaded the Andorra.pbf dataset. > > I saw that in the Nominatim project, there are multiple .sql file in the > data/ folder with country names and polygon that were injected in the > database during the installation process. > > Files: > - country_name.sql > - country_naturalearthdata.sql > - country_osm_grid.sql > - us_state.sql > - us_country.sql > > I was assuming that with this base installation I would be able to query > Nominatim with different country names and that it would provide me > results... but it does not. No result found each time. > > Did I miss a step in the installation process to be able to use the content > of those file in the Nominatim query?
The preprocessed country data is used only to determine which country a place is in and then search the place by this country. If you want to be able to find the country itself, you actually need a place object for this country. > Is there a way to use retrieve this data in query? You should get all country boundaries from Overpass with a query like this: wget -O countries.osm 'http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=relation["boundary"="administrative"]["admin_level"="2";];(._;>;);out body;' The resulting file is about 200MB. You can then either import it in a new DB with setup.php as usual. Or if you want to add the country boundaries to an existing DB run: ./utils/update.php --import-file countries.osm --index Sarah _______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
