Put in a note about nominatim OSM geocoder that works with international addresses...

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@6861 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

diff --git a/doc/extras_tigergeocoder.xml b/doc/extras_tigergeocoder.xml
index 04116f0591129077fa2b9e24cb5326ecfba60b21..8859728e09d774f373bb007ea71d52452f8141dd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/extras_tigergeocoder.xml
+++ b/doc/extras_tigergeocoder.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
                </abstract>
                <note><para>The <varname>tiger</varname> schema must be added to the database search path for the functions to work properly.</para></note>
      </sect1info>
+     
+     <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>
+     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>
        
        <refentry id="Geocode">
          <refnamediv>