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Tools for working with OpenStreetMap
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Add Nominatim query functionality #67

Open rolyhudson opened 3 years ago

rolyhudson commented 3 years ago

Description:

Nominatim (from the Latin, 'by name') is a tool to search OSM data by name and address (geocoding) and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM points (reverse geocoding). It can be found at nominatim.openstreetmap.org.

Would be good to access queries to the nominatim api from OpenStreetMap_Toolkit This will provide a way of working with OpenStreetMap queries without knowledge of defining search location by latitude and longitude.

API documentation is here https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/api/Overview/

Initial functionality should include:

As multiple results are likely these should include:

@rwemay other thoughts for initial functionality?

rolyhudson commented 3 years ago

@tg359 I understand you may have an interest in this or have already developed something related?