Make reverseInPlan true by default

[chmielas]

Hello,
I notice that at my local instance of Nominatim there is a difference between browser and wget
request:

For address http://myserver/nominatim/search.php?q=GERMANY+BAD+SCHWALBACH+65307+pfahlweg+1&polygon=0&format=xml&addressdetails=1
from brower I get 3 "place" nodes in XML (this is ok )

but wget returns following message (there is no "place" nodes)

for command

wget --output-document file.log 'http://myserver/nominatim/search.php?q=GERMANY+BAD+SCHWALBACH+65307+pfahlweg+1&polygon=0&format=xml&addressdetails=1'

Request to nominatim site

wget --output-document file.log 'http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=GERMANY+BAD+SCHWALBACH+65307+pfahlweg+1&polygon=0&format=xml&addressdetails=1'

returns full result

I think that I need to fix/change some settings in my installation but I don`t have idea what I should change. Maybe sombody
had similar issue ?

Regards,
Piotr

[mtmail]

Hi Piotr,

I see the same with my installation

Inside a browser you're sending the accept-language header, in your case pl.pl-Pl;q=0.95,en-US;q=0.89;... By default on command-line you don't send it and thus the default gets set to en.

• curl "http://SERVER/nominatim/search.php?q=GERMANY+BAD+SCHWALBACH+65307+pfahlweg+1&polygon=0&format=json&addressdetails=0"
  no results
• curl "http://SERVER/nominatim/search.php?q=GERMANY+BAD+SCHWALBACH+65307+pfahlweg+1&polygon=0&format=json&addressdetails=0&accept-language=en"
  no results
• curl "http://SERVER/nominatim/search.php?q=GERMANY+BAD+SCHWALBACH+65307+pfahlweg+1&polygon=0&format=json&addressdetails=0&accept-language=de"
  no results
• curl "http://SERVER/nominatim/search.php?q=GERMANY+BAD+SCHWALBACH+65307+pfahlweg+1&polygon=0&format=json&addressdetails=0&accept-language=pl.pl-Pl;q=0.95,en-US;q=0.89;"
  several results

That explains the difference between terminal and browser, but it doesn't explain why the address doesn't get found.

I tried pfahlweg+1,65307,BAD+SCHWALBACH,GERMANY and that worked fine. Do you have your addresses structured enough to order them small...large? Or even use structured parameter (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim, look for street=)?

[lonvia]

The query is in reverse order, which Nominatim will only consider for certain accept-languages. Try setting ReverseInPlan per default to true about here.

We really should be making this the default. It has been working well on osm.org for ages.