Sarah Hoffmann

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That's a data issue with OSM data. Reverse geocoding doesn't return the closest address but the closest OSM object. And that may or may not have the house number tagged....

As this is a frequent (and not totally unreasonable ;) request, I'm thinking about allowing reverse geocoding for addresses only. Just need to think about how to best add this...

Nominatim currently uses the following columns of wikipedia_article: language, title, importance, wd_page_title. All other columns could be removed. This would cut down the table size by about 30%. We should...

There is now a preliminary version of the importer for the new format at https://github.com/lonvia/Nominatim/tree/new-wikimedia-tables if you want to try the files out. The table is about half the size,...

There will probably be a new update mechanism at some point but it isn't exactly a priority at the moment.

@hug-fr Don't worry, we are not going to run out of issue forms. No need to economize. ;) More seriously: please always do open a new issue when you don't...

I was hoping that the new ICU-based transliteration fixes this but it looks like it still doesn't agree with you. It gives a transliteration of "d" for both "Ђ" and...

We'd need a full set of transliteration rules for the language. If you can compile two sets of [ICU rules](https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/transforms/general/) one for cyrillic, one for latin how you transliterate Serbian...

Thank you. That was exactly what I was looking for. It will make a nice first use-case for language-specific transliteration.