Document Nominatim and OpenStreetMap as Geocoder providers

Created on 4 September 2022, almost 2 years ago
Updated 30 April 2024, about 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

It's not obvious which values are required in these fields, to make the Nominatim and OpenStreetMap (which also uses Nominatim) providers work:

  • Root URL
  • User agent
  • Referer

Also, since Nominatim is free and open source, we should use that as example in the README.

Steps to reproduce

Try to use Nominatim and OpenStreetMap providers, and not know which values to provide.

Proposed resolution

  1. Document the required values below the three fields for Nominatim and OpenStreetMap providers
  2. Link to https://github.com/geocoder-php/Geocoder#address instead of the Packagist list, since it has geocoder-php/chain-provider as #2, which does not work
  3. Update the README
    Use Nominatim in the README, since it is open source and free to use

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

📌 Task
Status

Fixed

Version

4.0

Component

Documentation

Created by

🇺🇸United States W01F

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