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ericpap
ericpap

Reputation: 2937

Options to create a reverse geocode system using OpenStreetMap

I need to create a local reverse geocode service for my specific country using open source maps.

My first option is OpenStreetMap so I downloaded my country PBF file.

Can anyone give any idea on how to start using this data? or other options?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1021

Answers (2)

scai
scai

Reputation: 21509

There are already various search engines for OSM available. The most popular one currently is Nominatim. It supports both geocoding and reverse geocoding.

Upvotes: 2

hfhc2
hfhc2

Reputation: 4411

Well, you could start of by reading the wiki, I guess it would be interesting to find out which node / way / relation tags you would use as an input. Apart from that you should have an understanding of the best data structures for the task, I guess you want to perform nearest neighbor queries, so you might need to implement / use an R-Tree for that...

Upvotes: 1

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