3 This page contains generic installation instructions for Nominatim and its
4 prerequisites. There are also step-by-step instructions available for
5 the following operating systems:
7 * [Ubuntu 20.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-20.md)
8 * [Ubuntu 18.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-18.md)
9 * [CentOS 8](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-8.md)
11 These OS-specific instructions can also be found in executable form
12 in the `vagrant/` directory.
14 Users have created instructions for other frameworks. We haven't tested those
15 and can't offer support.
17 * [Docker](https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker)
18 * [Docker on Kubernetes](https://github.com/peter-evans/nominatim-k8s)
19 * [Kubernetes with Helm](https://github.com/robjuz/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/nominatim/README.md)
20 * [Ansible](https://github.com/synthesio/infra-ansible-nominatim)
27 For larger installations you **must have** PostgreSQL 11+ and Postgis 3+
28 otherwise import and queries will be slow to the point of being unusable.
29 Query performance has marked improvements with PostgrSQL 13+ and Postgis 3.2+.
33 * [cmake](https://cmake.org/)
34 * [expat](https://libexpat.github.io/)
35 * [proj](https://proj.org/)
36 * [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/)
37 * [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/)
38 * [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/)
39 * [Boost libraries](https://www.boost.org/), including system and filesystem
40 * PostgreSQL client libraries
41 * a recent C++ compiler (gcc 5+ or Clang 3.8+)
43 For running Nominatim:
45 * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.6+ will work, 11+ strongly recommended)
46 * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net) (2.2+ will work, 3.0+ strongly recommended)
47 * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (3.6+)
48 * [Psycopg2](https://www.psycopg.org) (2.7+)
49 * [Python Dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv)
50 * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil)
51 * [Jinja2](https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/)
52 * [PyICU](https://pypi.org/project/PyICU/)
53 * [PyYaml](https://pyyaml.org/) (5.1+)
54 * [datrie](https://github.com/pytries/datrie)
55 * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.0 or later)
57 * PHP-intl (bundled with PHP)
58 * PHP-cgi (for running queries from the command line)
60 For running continuous updates:
62 * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/)
64 For dependencies for running tests and building documentation, see
65 the [Development section](../develop/Development-Environment.md).
69 A minimum of 2GB of RAM is required or installation will fail. For a full
70 planet import 128GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report
71 out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM.
73 For a full planet install you will need at least 1TB of hard disk space.
74 Take into account that the OSM database is growing fast.
75 Fast disks are essential. Using NVME disks is recommended.
77 Even on a well configured machine the import of a full planet takes
78 around 2 days. On traditional spinning disks, 7-8 days are more realistic.
80 ## Tuning the PostgreSQL database
82 You might want to tune your PostgreSQL installation so that the later steps
83 make best use of your hardware. You should tune the following parameters in
84 your `postgresql.conf` file.
87 maintenance_work_mem = (10GB)
88 autovacuum_work_mem = 2GB
90 effective_cache_size = (24GB)
91 synchronous_commit = off
93 checkpoint_timeout = 10min
94 checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
96 The numbers in brackets behind some parameters seem to work fine for
97 64GB RAM machine. Adjust to your setup. A higher number for `max_wal_size`
98 means that PostgreSQL needs to run checkpoints less often but it does require
99 the additional space on your disk.
101 Autovacuum must not be switched off because it ensures that the
102 tables are frequently analysed. If your machine has very little memory,
103 you might consider setting:
105 autovacuum_max_workers = 1
107 and even reduce `autovacuum_work_mem` further. This will reduce the amount
108 of memory that autovacuum takes away from the import process.
110 For the initial import, you should also set:
113 full_page_writes = off
115 Don't forget to reenable them after the initial import or you risk database
119 ## Downloading and building Nominatim
121 ### Downloading the latest release
123 You can download the [latest release from nominatim.org](https://nominatim.org/downloads/).
124 The release contains all necessary files. Just unpack it.
126 ### Downloading the latest development version
128 If you want to install latest development version from github, make sure to
129 also check out the osm2pgsql subproject:
132 git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
135 The development version does not include the country grid. Download it separately:
138 wget -O Nominatim/data/country_osm_grid.sql.gz https://www.nominatim.org/data/country_grid.sql.gz
141 ### Building Nominatim
143 The code must be built in a separate directory. Create the directory and
151 Nominatim uses cmake and make for building. Assuming that you have created the
152 build at the same level as the Nominatim source directory run:
161 The default installation no longer compiles the PostgreSQL module that
162 is needed for the legacy tokenizer from older Nominatim versions. If you
163 are upgrading an older database or want to run the
164 [legacy tokenizer](../customize/Tokenizers.md#legacy-tokenizer) for
165 some other reason, you need to enable the PostgreSQL module via
166 cmake: `cmake -DBUILD_MODULE=on ../Nominatim`. To compile the module
167 you need to have the server development headers for PostgreSQL installed.
168 On Ubuntu/Debian run: `sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-<postgresql version>`
171 Nominatim installs itself into `/usr/local` per default. To choose a different
172 installation directory add `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install root>` to the
173 cmake command. Make sure that the `bin` directory is available in your path
177 export PATH=<install root>/bin:$PATH
180 Now continue with [importing the database](Import.md).