osm-reverse-geocoder

Overview

osm-reverse-geocoder is a simple reverse geocoder for OpenStreetMaps. It does not require the installation of Nominatim or other packages, only the imported PostgreSQL database. Latest version at https://github.com/wardvanwanrooij/osm-reverse-geocoder

Performance

It takes about 0.2sec to reverse geocode a coordinate on my VPS (uncached, after reboot). You can benchmark your own installation with the included script by reverse geocoding 500 random (though fixed) coordinates in Europe.

export DBI_DSN="DBI:Pg:dbname=osm;host=127.0.0.1"
export DBI_USER="osm"
export DBI_PASS="***yourpassword***"
perl benchmark.pl
(...)
took 98 seconds to process 500 coordinates, 0.20 sec/coordinate

Installation

Install by loading the reverse_geocoder.sql script in your OSM database:

    $ psql osm -f reverse_geocoder.sql
    CREATE FUNCTION
    $       

Installation requirements are:

• Tags must be present in the database (--hstore option in osm2pgsql)
• OSM import must be done in the default coordinate system (EPSG:3857)

Usage

Invoke the reverse geocoder by calling the reverse_geocode function with latitude and longitude (in WGS84) as parameters:

osm=> SELECT * FROM reverse_geocode(52.380021, 5.195351);
 country_iso |     country     |  city  |   street    | housenumber |     distance     
-------------+-----------------+--------+-------------+-------------+------------------
 NL          | The Netherlands | Almere | Sesamstraat | 32          | 8.68894216514979
(1 row)
osm=> 

Any or all return values can be NULL.