[OSM-talk] Resolving issues with nominatim

[Pete Masters]

Great, thanks both. I'll pass on the info....

Pete

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, 19:24 Tom Hughes, <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> On 10/08/2022 09:43, Pete Masters via talk wrote:
>
> > Daniel Odongo from Ushahidi left the following message on the HOT slack:
> >
> >     Hi folks, anyone know anyone at Nominatim? I’m leading
> >     Ushahidi’selection monitoring initiative
> >     <https://uchaguzi.or.ke/views/map>[1] around the ongoing Kenya
> >     elections. The search feature on our OSM layer (powered by
> >     Nominatim) appears to be down. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > I have shared the github issues link
> > <https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues> [2], but does anyone
> > know if there are better ways to follow this up? The support page at
> > https://nominatim.org/ <https://nominatim.org/> returns a 404.
>
> As far as I can see that site doesn't hit the OSM Nominatim
> instance - if you mean the search box at the top then that seems
> to send all it's requests to api-2022.uchaguzi.or.ke.
>
> If you're saying that server is then querying our Nominatim
> then we need to know what responses it is getting. but most
> likely it is not complying with the usage policy and sending
> generic user agent and/or referer information.
>
> Them talking to operations would probably be more productive
> than getting a third party to play chinese whispers by emailing
> the talk list.
>
> Tom
>
> --
> Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
> http://compton.nu/
>
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