Nominatim Server

OpenNameSearch

This script is for building a Nominatim server with OpenStreetMap data.

Only for use on a clean Ubuntu 22 and 24!

Step 1: Get the Nominatim-Server.sh script from GitHub

  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AcuGIS/Nominatim-Server/master/Nominatim-Server-22.sh

Step 2: Make it executable:

chmod 755 Nominatim-Server-22.sh

Step 3: Run the script

Script usage:

The script accepts a PBF url:

./Nominatim-Server-22.sh  pbf_url

The pbf_url is the complete PBF url from GeoFarbrik

Load Andorra data from GeoFabrik (one of the smallest data sets, good for testing):

  ./Nominatim-Server-22.sh https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/andorra-latest.osm.pbf

Once installation completes, navigate to the IP or hostname on your server.

You should see a page as below:

OpenNameSearch

Click the Search function (or go to domain.com/search.html)

You should see a page as below:

To test functionality, enter below into the Search box::

AD500 Andorra la Vella, Andorra

Confirm that results are returned

You can use our reload-Nominatim-Server.sh script via GitHUB script.

Usage is:
./reload-Nominatim-Server.sh [PBF_URL1] …

The script creates an updater service. In order to enable updates:

systemctl enable nominatim-updates.service systemctl start nominatim-updates.service