[Bug]: No Nominatim geocoding service. in any person form

[odiea]

Bug Description?

Try adding a zip code to any person form.
Access blocked
You have been blocked because you have violated the usage policy of OSM's Nominatim geocoding service. Please be aware that OSM's resources are limited and shared between many users. The usage policy is there to ensure that the service remains usable for everybody.

Please review the terms and make sure that your software adheres to the terms. You should in particular verify that you have set a custom HTTP referrer or HTTP user agent that identifies your application, and that you are not overusing the service with massive bulk requests.

If you feel that this block is unjustified or remains after you have adopted your usage, you may contact the Nominatim system administrator at nominatim@openstreetmap.org to have this block lifted.

Steps to Reproduce?

Same as above

Expected Behavior?

Zip should show Info.

OpensourcePOS Version

development (unreleased)

Php version

Php 8.2

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

No response

Server Operating System and version

Wamp Server

Database Management System and version

Mysql

Web Server and version

Wamp Server

System Information Report (optional)

System Information Report

Unmodified copy of OpensourcePOS

• I agree this copy has not been modified

[jekkos]

Their rate limit is 1 request per second. Maybe they also require to add a referral header now.

[jekkos]

I tried this now on dev and the form works as expected. Maybe they just temporarily block you because you make too many requrests at a time. I can increase the delay to abide their usage policy, one request per second max.

[jekkos]

It seems that the rate limitation is already set to 1s. Another recommendation is to set the referrer or user agent in the request. Alas this cannot be done if the call is made from a browser. So this means that it might need to be done from the backend instead, this way we also have more control over the rate at which the calls go out to this exernal API

@odiea are you able to reproduce this issue ?

[odiea]

This is the second time in the last year that I have tested this feature.

Access blocked
You have been blocked because you have violated the usage policy of OSM's Nominatim geocoding service. Please be aware that OSM's resources are limited and shared between many users. The usage policy is there to ensure that the service remains usable for everybody.

Please review the terms and make sure that your software adheres to the terms. You should in particular verify that you have set a custom HTTP referrer or HTTP user agent that identifies your application, and that you are not overusing the service with massive bulk requests.

If you feel that this block is unjustified or remains after you have adopted your usage, you may contact the Nominatim system administrator at nominatim@openstreetmap.org to have this block lifted.

[odiea]

I just tried the dev demo and get the same access blocked. Damn thing worked when I used a vpn.

[jekkos]

@odiea that might be as expected, my guess is that your specific IP was blocked by nominatim. In fact it does not matter whether you use the service locally or from dev. In this case it's your browser that makes the call so for nominatim, the IP is the same.

So that is probably the reason why it's still working for me. In their error message they mention that you can request to unblock you. You could try to circumvent the block by power cycling your modem. This should give you a new IP that is probably not on the blocklist.

I do wonder whether we should move this functionality to the backend. This would identify all logged in users as the same IP and that could make the experience worse as all logged in browsers need to be throttled to 1 request per second.

I don't think that they now have a way to distinguish which ones are using the same ospos install. That is why they want to have the referrer or user agent header included.

[odiea]

I am not worried about this. I just test to see if is still working. My idea was to move it to the people /manage form so it does not get loaded with every module change.

[jekkos]

I tested again and still working for me on dev. Does it work for you now as well?

[odiea]

Yes it is working for me now.