[Geocoding] PLACEX

[Sarah Hoffmann]

Hi Franz,

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:21:28PM +0200, franz.gebele at uni-ulm.de wrote:
> My name is Franz and I study informatics. For my diploma thesis I
> have to geocode (and reverse geocode) a huge amount of addresses
> (over 100000) multiple times. The only geocoder I've found was
> Nominatim, but unfortunately Nominatim threats with ip blocking for
> high-traffic users.
> 
> So I'm trying to set up an own geocoder server (like Nominatim) with
> osm2pgsql. After I read the data into a postgres database (Postgres
> 1.9 x86), I mentioned, that there doesn't exist a 'placex' table
> which Nominatim uses to query the Search- or Reverse-SQL statements.
> 
> Can somebody help me please?

Normally, Nominatim takes care to call osm2pgsql in the right
way so that this table is created (adding the -O gazetteer
parameter).

You should follow the installation instructions on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation

If you followed these instruction and still can't find the placex table,
then you are most likely using an old version of osm2pgsql which had 
a bug in the table creation code. Get the latest version of osm2pgsql 
from subversion and build it yourself.

Sarah