Nominatim Alternatives

Nominatim reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Should I open source or not?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2025

  Then you can actually query https://nominatim.org/, which does the (reverese) geocoding.

  > the map will be text-only to ensure accessibility.

  I wonder how that's done, something like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapscii ?

• Building a Custom Reverse Geocoding Resource for .Net Aspire
  3 projects | dev.to | 28 Jul 2024

  This post is going to focus on project Nominatim which uses OpenStreetMap data to provide necessary APIs for geocoding and reverse geocoding. Relevant tools and servers can be installed using traditional approaches on various operating systems as well as running as containers.

• Nominatim: OpenStreetMap geocoding and reverse geocoding API
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2024
• Answer: How To Get Latitude & Longitude of a Address using python
  2 projects | dev.to | 5 Oct 2023

  You can simply use geopy API to get longitude and latitude from address. geopy includes geocoder classes for the OpenStreetMap Nominatim, Google Geocoding API (V3), and many other geocoding services. The full list is available on the Geocoders doc section. Geocoder classes are located in geopy.geocoders. Here…

• Nominatim: Open-source geocoding with OpenStreetMap data
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2023
• Btreefs generates executable code at runtime to unpack btree nodes
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jun 2023

  I have had a lot of "fun" with this feature in the past. It has earned a permanent place in my setup script:

  ALTER SYSTEM SET jit=off;

  Basically a performance blackhole for more complex queries. Most OSM related projects disable it straight away as it only creates headaches.

  https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/pull/2559

• [Help] searching address
  1 project | /r/OsmAnd | 13 Jun 2023

  Because osm.org and OsmAnd use different search engines. On osm.org it uses the Nominatim geocoder which is good at parsing addresses the way we are used to writing them. It is also running on a server with a lot of storage and memory resources. OsmAnd is built for offline use so it can't use Nominatim and has much more limited computing resources available to it. It is searching through the map files locally on your phone and however they have chosen to implement that search algorithm seems to perform poorly on addresses.

• Kako riješiti različite verzije istih adresa ulica?
  2 projects | /r/CroIT | 11 Jun 2023

  Ako skupa s adresama imaš i njihove lokacije možeš i koristiti gotov geocoder (e.g. Nominatim je free i koristi OSM podatke, možeš i deployati svoju instancu), pa iz rezultata naći geometrijski najbližu adresu koju imaš.

• Let's build a Google Maps clone with React, Leaflet, and OneSDK
  13 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2023

  Then implement a use case. We are going to use Geocoding use case with Nominatim provider. But you can, of course, use a different provider. Copy the example code into your server.js file and make a few changes, so we can send the information we will receive from the user:

• MicroG Qs
  1 project | /r/CalyxOS | 12 May 2023

  There are reasons why this tech was developed: because GPS can take a long time to sync up to the satellites, because GPS often doesn't work indoors, because your phone can keep a local cache of locations, and so you have the ability to find places by name or address (Geocoding) using nominatim ( https://nominatim.org )

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