3 * fix deletion handling for 'nominatim add-data'
4 * adapt place_force_delete() to new deletion handling
5 * flex style: avoid dropping of postcode areas
6 * fix update errors on address interpolation handling
10 * extend flex-style library to fully support all default styles
11 * fix handling of Hebrew aleph
12 * do not assign postcodes to rivers
13 * fix string matching in PHP code
14 * update osm2pgsql (various updates to flex)
15 * fix slow query when deleting places on update
16 * fix CLI details query
17 * fix recalculation of importance values
18 * fix polygon simplification in reverse results
19 * add class/type information to reverse geocodejson result
20 * minor improvements to default tokenizer configuration
21 * various smaller fixes to documentation
25 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
29 * add experimental support for osm2pgsql flex style
30 * introduce secondary importance value to be retrieved from a raster data file
31 (currently still unused, to replace address importance, thanks to @tareqpi)
32 * add new report tool `nominatim admin --collect-os-info`
33 (thanks @micahcochran, @tareqpi)
34 * reorganise index to improve lookup performance and size
35 * run index creation after import in parallel
36 * run ANALYZE more selectively to speed up continuation of indexing
37 * fix crash on update when addr:interpolation receives an illegal value
38 * fix minimum number of retrieved results to be at least 10
39 * fix search for combinations of special term + name (e.g Hotel Bellevue)
40 * do not return interpolations without a parent street on reverse search
41 * improve invalidation of linked places on updates
42 * fix address parsing for interpolation lines
43 * make sure socket timeouts are respected during replication
44 (working around a bug in some versions of pyosmium)
45 * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.7.1
46 * add support for PostgreSQL 15
47 * typing fixes to work with latest type annotations from typeshed
48 * smaller improvements to documentation (thanks to @mausch)
52 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
56 * switch to ICU tokenizer as default
57 * add housenumber normalization and support optional spaces during search
58 * add postcode format checking and support optional spaces during search
59 * add function for cleaning housenumbers in word table
60 * add updates/deletion of country names imported from OSM
61 * linked places no longer overwrite names from a place permanently
62 * move default country name configuration into yaml file (thanks @tareqpi)
63 * more compact layout for interpolation and TIGER tables
64 * introduce mutations to ICU tokenizer (used for German umlauts)
65 * support reinitializing a full project directory with refresh --website
66 * fix various issues with linked places on updates
67 * add support for external sanitizers and token analyzers
68 * add CLI commands for forced indexing
69 * add CLI command for version report
70 * add offline import mode
71 * change geocodejson to return a feature class in the 'type' field
72 * add ISO3166-2 to address output (thanks @I70l0teN4ik)
73 * improve parsing and matching of addr: tags
74 * support relations as street members of associatedStreet
75 * better ranking for address results from TIGER data
76 * adapt rank classification to changed tag usage in OSM
77 * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.6.0
78 * add typing information to Python code
79 * improve unit test coverage
80 * reorganise and speed up code for BDD tests, drop support for scenes
81 * move PHP unit tests to PHP 9.5
82 * extensive typo fixes in documentation (thanks @woodpeck,@StephanGeorg,
83 @amandasaurus, @nslxndr, @stefkiourk, @Luflosi, @kianmeng)
84 * drop official support for installation on CentOS
85 * add installation instructions for Ubuntu 22.04
86 * add support for PHP8
87 * add setup instructions for updates and systemd
88 * drop support for PostgreSQL 9.5
92 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
96 * fix initialisation error in replication script
97 * ICU tokenizer: avoid any special characters in word tokens
98 * better error message when API php script does not exist
99 * fix quoting of house numbers in SQL queries
100 * small fixes and improvements in search query parsing
101 * add documentation for moving the database to a different machine
105 * refactor name token computation and introduce ICU tokenizer
106 * name processing now happens in the indexer outside the DB
107 * reorganizes abbreviation handling and moves it to the indexing phases
108 * adds preprocessing of names
109 * add country-specific ranking for Spain, Slovakia
110 * partially switch to using SP-GIST indexes
111 * better updating of dependent addresses for name changes in streets
112 * remove unused/broken tables for external housenumbers
113 * move external postcodes to CSV format and no longer save them in tables
114 (adds support for postcodes for arbitrary countries)
115 * remove postcode helper entries from placex (thanks @AntoJvlt)
116 * change required format for TIGER data to CSV
117 * move configuration of default languages from wiki into config file
118 * expect customized configuration files in project directory by default
119 * disable search API for reverse-only import (thanks @darkshredder)
120 * port most of maintenance/import code to Python and remove PHP utils
121 * add catch-up mode for replication
122 * add updating of special phrases (thanks @AntoJvlt)
123 * add support for special phrases in CSV files (thanks @AntoJvlt)
124 * switch to case-independent matching between place and boundary names
125 * remove disabling of reverse query parsing
126 * minor tweaks to search algorithm to avoid more false positives
127 * major overhaul of the administrator and developer documentation
128 * add security disclosure policy
129 * add testing of installation scripts via CI
130 * drop support for Python < 3.6 and Postgresql < 9.5
134 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
138 * fix database check for reverse-only imports
139 * do not error out in status API result when import date is missing
140 * add array_key_last function for PHP < 7.3 (thanks to @woodpeck)
141 * fix more url when server name is unknown (thanks to @mogita)
142 * commit changes to replication log table
146 * fix smaller issues with special phrases import (thanks @AntoJvlt)
147 * add index to speed up continued indexing during import
148 * fix index on location_property_tiger(parent_place_id) (thanks @changpingc)
149 * make sure Python code is backward-compatible with Python 3.5
150 * various documentation fixes
154 * switch to dotenv for configuration file
155 * introduce 'make install' (reorganising most of the code)
156 * introduce nominatim tool as replacement for various php scripts
157 * introduce project directories and allow multiple installations from same build
158 * clean up BDD tests: drop nose, reorganise step code
159 * simplify test database for API BDD tests and autoinstall database
160 * port most of the code for command-line tools to Python
161 (thanks to @darkshredder and @AntoJvlt)
162 * add tests for all tooling
163 * replace pyosmium-get-changes with custom internal implementation using
165 * improve search for queries with housenumber and partial terms
166 * add database versioning
167 * use jinja2 for preprocessing SQL files
168 * introduce automatic migrations
169 * reverse fix preference of interpolations over housenumbers
170 * parallelize indexing of postcodes
171 * add non-key indexes to speed up housenumber + street searches
172 * switch housenumber field in placex to save transliterated names
176 * add full support for searching by and displaying of addr:* tags
177 * improve address output for large-area objects
178 * better use of country names from OSM data for search and display
179 * better debug output for reverse call
180 * add support for addr:place links without an place equivalent in OSM
181 * improve finding postcodes with normalisation artefacts
182 * batch object to index for rank 30, avoiding a wrap-around of transaction
184 * introduce dynamic address rank computation for administrative boundaries
185 depending on linked objects and their place in the admin level hierarchy
186 * add country-specific address ranking for Indonesia, Russia, Belgium and
187 the Netherlands (thanks @hendrikmoree)
188 * make sure wikidata/wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
189 * make POIs searchable by name and housenumber (thanks @joy-yyd)
190 * reverse geocoding now ignores places without an address rank (rivers etc.)
191 * installation of a webserver is no longer mandatory, for development
192 use the php internal webserver via 'make serve
193 * reduce the influence of place nodes in addresses
194 * drop support for the unspecific is_in tag
195 * various minor tweaks to supplied styles
196 * move HTML web frontend into its own project
197 * move scripts for processing external data sources into separate directories
198 * introduce separate configuration for website (thanks @krahulreddy)
199 * update documentation, in particular, clean up development docs
200 * update osm2pgsql to 1.4.0
204 * ensure that wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
205 * reinstate verbosity for indexing during updates
206 * make house number reappear in display name on named POIs
207 * introduce batch processing in indexer to avoid transaction ID overrun
208 * increase splitting for large geometries to improve indexing speed
209 * remove deprecated get_magic_quotes_gpc() function
210 * make sure that all postcodes have an entry in word and are thus searchable
211 * remove use of ST_Covers in conjunction woth ST_Intersects,
212 causes bad query planning and slow updates in Postgis3
217 * disable jit and parallel processing in PostgreSQL for osm2pgsql
218 * update libosmium to 2.15.6 (fixes an issue with processing hanging
219 on large multipolygons)
223 * structured select on HTML search page
224 * new PHP Nominatim\Shell class to wrap shell escaping
225 * remove polygon parameter from all API calls
226 * improve handling of postcode areas
227 * reorganise place linking algorithm, now using wikidata tag as well
228 * remove linkees from search_name and larger_area tables
229 * introduce country-specific address ranks
230 * reorganise rank address computation
231 * cleanup of partition function
232 * improve parenting for large POIs
233 * add support for Postgresql 12 and Postgis 3
234 * add earlier cleanup when --drop is given, to reduce memory usage
235 * remove use of place_id in URLs
236 * replace C nominatim indexer with a simpler Python implementation
237 * split up the huge sql/functions.sql file
238 * move osm2pgsql tests to osm2pgsql
239 * add new extratags style which imports all tags from OSM
240 * add new script for checking the import after completion
241 * update osm2pgsql, reducing memory usage
242 * use new wikipedia importance and add processing of wikidata tags
243 * add search form for details page
244 * use ExtraDataPath for country_grid table
245 * remove short_name from list of names to be displayed
246 * split up CMakeFile, so that all parts can be built separately
247 * update installation instructions for CentOS and Ubuntu
248 * add script for importing/updating multiple country extracts
249 * various documentation improvements
253 * fix security bug in /details endpoint where user input was not
258 * update osm2pgsql to fix hans during updates and lost address numbers
263 * increase required version for PostgreSQL(9.3), PostGIS(2.2) and PHP(7.0)
264 * better error reporting for out-of-memory errors
265 * exclude postcode ranges separated by colon from centre point calculation
266 * update osm2pgsql, better handling of imports without flatnode file
267 * switch to more efficient algorithm for word set computation
268 * use only boundries for country and state parts of addresses
269 * improve updates of addresses with housenumbers and interpolations
270 * remove country from place_addressline table and use country_code instead
271 * optimise indexes on search_name partition tables
272 * improve searching of attached streets for large objects like airports
273 * drop support for python 2
274 * new scripts for importing Wikidata for importance
275 * create and drop indexes concurrently to not clash with auto vacuum
276 * various documentation improvements
281 * zoom 17 in reverse now zooms in on minor streets
282 * fix use of postcode relations in address
283 * support for housenumber 0 on interpolations
284 * replace database abstraction DB with PDO and switch to using exceptions
285 * exclude line features at rank 30 from reverse geocoding
286 * remove self-reference and country from place_addressline
287 * make json output more readable (less escaping)
288 * update conversion scripts for postcodes
289 * scripts in utils/ are no longer executable (always use scripts in build dir)
290 * remove Natural Earth country fallback (OSM is complete enough)
291 * make rank assignments configurable
292 * allow accept languages with underscore
293 * new reverse-only import mode (without search index table)
294 * rely on boundaries only for states and countries
295 * update osm2pgsql, now using a configurable style
296 * provide multiple import styles
297 * improve search when house number and postcodes are dropped
298 * overhaul of setup code
299 * add support for PHPUnit 6
300 * update test database
301 * various documentation improvements
305 * complete rewrite of reverse search algorithm
306 * add new geojson and geocodejson output formats
307 * add simple export script to exprot addresses to CSV
308 * remove is_in terms from address computation
309 * remove unused search_name_country tables
310 * various smaller fixes to query parsing
311 * convert Tokens and token types to class types
312 * correctly handle update when boundary object type is changed
313 * improve debug output for /search endpoint
314 * update to latest osm2pgsql and leaflet.js
315 * overhaul of /details endpoint:
316 * new class parameter when using osmtype/osmid parameters
317 * permalink to instance-independent osmtype/osmid parameter format
318 * new json output format
319 * update CentOS vagrant machine to use SELinux
320 * add vagrant scripts for Ubuntu 18.04
321 * fix build process for BSD
322 * enable running the database on a different host than the setup scripts
323 * allow to configure use of custom PHP binaries (PHP_BIN)
324 * extensive coding style improvements to PHP code
325 * more PHP unit tests for new classes
326 * increase coverage for API tests
327 * add documentation for API
331 * rework postcode handling and introduce location_postcode table
332 * make setup less verbose and print a summary in the end
333 * setup: error out when web site user does not exist
334 * add more API tests to complete code coverage
335 * reinstate key-value amenity search (special term [key=value])
336 * fix detection of coordinates in query
337 * various smaller tweaks to ranking of search interpretations
338 * complete overhaul of PHP frontend code using OOP
339 * add address rank to details page
340 * update Tiger scripts for 2017 data and clean up unused code
341 * various bug fixes and improvements to UI
342 * improve reverse geocoding performance close to coasts
343 * more PHP style cleanup (quoting)
344 * allow unnamed road in reverse geocoding to avoid too far off results
345 * add function to recalculate counts for full-word search term
346 * add function to check if new updates are available
347 * update documentation and switch to mkdocs for generating HTML
351 * fix bug in geometry building algorithm in osm2pgsql
352 * fix typos in build instructions
356 * move to cmake build system
357 * various fixes to HTML output
358 * reverse endpoint now can return geometries
359 * add support for PHP7
360 * move to on-the-fly computation of interpolations
361 * improve handling of linked places (updating)
362 * improve test framework:
363 * replace lettuce with behave
364 * use smaller database for API tests
365 * drop support for postgres < 9.1, postgis < 2.0 and PHP < 5.4
366 * make external data use optional (useful for imports without US)
367 * detect postgres and postgis versions automatically
368 * clean up query logging and remove unused tables
369 * move installation documentation into this repo
370 * add self-documenting vagrant scripts
371 * remove --create-website, recommend to use website directory in build
372 * add accessor functions for URL parameters and improve erro checking
373 * remove IP blocking and rate-limiting code
374 * enable CI via travis
375 * reformatting for more consistent coding style
376 * make country search term creation part of setup
377 * update country names and country grid
378 * handle roads that cross boundaries better
379 * keep full information on address tags
380 * update to refactored osm2pgsql which use libosmium based types
381 * switch from osmosis to pyosmium for updates
382 * be more strict when matching against special search terms
383 * handle postcode entries with mutliple values correctly
387 * reverse geocoding includes looking up housenumbers from Tiger data
388 * added parameter to return simplified geometries
389 * new lookup call for getting address information for OSM objects
390 * new namedetails and extratags parameters that expose the name and extratags
391 fields of the placex table
397 * drop support for postgres 8.4
398 * rewrite address interpolation
399 * switch to C++ version of osm2pgsql and rewrite tag filtering
400 * support for bridge:name and tunnel:name, man_made, junction
401 * drop way-node index (reduces database size by about 15%)
402 * add support for configuring tablespaces and webserver user
403 * better evaluation of search queries in right-to-left notation
404 * improve house number search for streets with many duplicate entries
405 * code cleanup (remove unused functions and tables)
409 * further improve ordering of results
410 * support for more lat/lon formats in search-as-reverse
411 * fix handling of GB postcodes
412 * new functional test suite
413 * support for waterway relations
414 * inherit postcodes from street to poi
415 * fix housenumber normalisation to find non-latin house numbers
416 * take viewbox into account for ordering of results
417 * pois may now inherit address tags from surrounding buildings
418 * improve what objects may participate in an address
419 * clean up handled class/type combinations to current OSM usage
424 * correct database rights for www-data
425 * add timestamps for update output
426 * load postgis via extension for postgis >= 2.0
427 * remove non-admin boundaries from addresses
428 * further improve ordering of results with same importance
429 * merge addr:postcode tags into object addresses
430 * include rank and importance in reverse geocode output
431 * replace ST_Line_Interpolate_Point with ST_LineInterpolatePoint
433 * update osm2pgsql to latest version
434 * properly detect changes of admin_level
435 * remove landuses when name is removed
440 * update to openlayers 2.12 (now custom built)
441 * update fallback OSM boundaries
442 * add support for postgresql 9.2/9.3 and postgis 2.x
443 * add structured queries
444 * add options for polygon output in various formats
445 (geojson, svg, kml, postgis text)
446 * maintenance functions for deleting objects and updating regions
447 (plcae_force_update/place_force_delete)
448 * web view for polygons that need deleting
449 * rate limiting using memcache
450 * improve layout of details page
451 * add support for boundary:postal_code
453 * improve parenting of POIs
454 * support for extract daily diffs from Geofabrik
455 * support for addresses without a street
456 (addr:place and conscription number house numbers)
457 * improve layout of word and search_name_* tables
458 * support for US ZIP+4 codes
459 * refactoring of front-end PHP code
460 * lots of smaller bug fixes
464 * delete outdated entries from location_area_country
465 * remove remaining uses of INTEGER, to allow node ids larger than 2^31