X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/2edefd9e80ac27600dbd2fdebfa29735b29587d8..64ace51e02790bf88e162a15236c5ac2af865c5e:/docs/data-sources/overview.md diff --git a/docs/data-sources/overview.md b/docs/data-sources/overview.md index a6dc0dba..bc77da03 100644 --- a/docs/data-sources/overview.md +++ b/docs/data-sources/overview.md @@ -2,3 +2,33 @@ This guide explains how data sources other than OpenStreetMap mentioned in the install instructions got obtained and converted. + +## Country grid + +Nominatim uses pre-generated country borders data. In case one imports only +a subset of a country. And to assign each place a partition. Nominatim +database tables are split into partitions for performance. + +More details in [osm-search/country-grid-data](https://github.com/osm-search/country-grid-data). + +## US Census TIGER + +For the United States you can choose to import additonal street-level data. +The data isn't mixed into OSM data but queried as fallback when no OSM +result can be found. + +More details in [osm-search/TIGER-data](https://github.com/osm-search/TIGER-data). + +## GB postcodes + +For Great Britain you can choose to import Royalmail postcode centroids. + +More details in [osm-search/gb-postcode-data](https://github.com/osm-search/gb-postcode-data). + + +## Wikipedia & Wikidata rankings + +Nominatim can import "importance" data of place names. This greatly +improves ranking of results. + +More details in [osm-search/wikipedia-wikidata](https://github.com/osm-search/wikipedia-wikidata). \ No newline at end of file