From: Regina Obe Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:23:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Put in a note about nominatim OSM geocoder that works with international addresses... X-Git-Tag: 2.0.0alpha1~1940 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ff1f8feb21122c542c00071447e69ea3f9ab3880;p=postgis Put in a note about nominatim OSM geocoder that works with international addresses and open street map data 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 04116f059..8859728e0 100644 --- a/doc/extras_tigergeocoder.xml +++ b/doc/extras_tigergeocoder.xml @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ The tiger schema must be added to the database search path for the functions to work properly. + + There is another geocoder for PostGIS gaining in popularity and more suitable for international use. It is called Nomatim + 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.