[Geocoding] Does Nominatim need all OSM data to be efficient ?

[Michal Palenik]

and what about style file?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql#Import_style

and --style command line switch

michal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:29:10PM +0200, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:28:20PM +0200, Charles DESNEUF wrote:
> > Hi all !
> > I tried to install my own Nominatim server and I have some issues with the
> > responses it returns. I need to run a reverse geocoding service which is
> > able to return information such as country code, state/region and
> > locality(city, town,...) but nothing more specific.
> > I have created a new osm file using osmosis, from last-week planet file,
> > with a the tag-filter option to get only elements(nodes and ways) with tags
> > boundary, border_type and place and imported it using Nominatim setup
> > script.
> > While I was running some tests, I noticed some errors in Nominatim
> > response(Moscou with US country code, bad state in Rennes, France(Pays de
> > la Loire instead of Bretagne, ...).
> > Of course, the Nominatim instance running on Poldi returns valid
> > information.
> > Does Nominatim need all OSM data (streets, ...) to be efficient or did I
> > miss something (a tag ?) ?

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