<note><para>The <varname>tiger</varname> schema must be added to the database search path for the functions to work properly.</para></note>
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- <para>There is another geocoder for PostGIS gaining in popularity and more suitable for international use. It is called <ulink url="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim">Nomatim</ulink>
+ <para>There is another geocoder for PostGIS gaining in popularity and more suitable for international use. It is called <ulink url="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim">Nominatim</ulink>
and uses OpenStreetMap gazeteer formatted data. It requires osm2pgsql for loading the data, PostgreSQL 8.4+ and PostGIS 1.5+ to function. It also a webservice interface and was more designed to be call as a webservice.
Just like the tiger geocoder, it has both a geocoder and reverse geocoder component. From the documentation, it is unclear if it has a pure SQL interface like the tiger geocoder, or if a good deal of the logic is implemented in the web interface.</para>