nominatim

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 9/19/21 11:20 AM, Felix Delattre wrote:
> It looks like `nominatim` is getting to a point, that it would be ready and useful to package it. The upstream maintainers are highly interested in this.
> 
>  * https://nominatim.org 
>  * https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim
> 
> I'm considering to propose an ITP for nominatim. Do you think this is a good candidate for Debian and would you be open to sponsor it? And review my work?

The disclaimer in the Installation section of the README is not very
encouraging:

"
 Nominatim is a complex piece of software and runs in a complex
 environment. Installing and running Nominatim is something for
 experienced system administrators only who can do some trouble-shooting
 themselves. We are sorry, but we can not provide installation support.
 We are all doing this in our free time and there is just so much of
 that time to go around. Do not open issues in our bug tracker if you
 need help. Use the discussions forum or ask for help on
 help.openstreetmap.org.
"

The hardware requirements for a full planet database are excessive too,
putting that out of range for most systems. Troubleshooting will be a PITA.

Before sinking a lot of time into packaging nominatim, finishing the
work on tirex & tilemaker is probably a better idea.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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