Nominatim does not support the geocode request URL with trailing slash anymore

Created on 2 August 2023, over 1 year ago
Updated 2 September 2023, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

Since this week Nominatim geocoding fails randomly, based on the location of the Drupal installation that makes the API call.

The reason is, that Nominatim does not support the trailing slash in their API URL anymore.

Old and deprecated

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/?xxx

Now the only supported version

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?xxx

You can read more about the change here: https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/3134
The randomness of still working/not working is explained their as well. The change has not been rolled out on all servers yet.

Steps to reproduce

Proposed resolution

Change th URL.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

🐛 Bug report
Status

Fixed

Version

4.0

Component

Geolocation Field / Backend

Created by

🇩🇪Germany szeidler Berlin

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