Nominatim/ChangeLog
2023-09-07 10:07:16 +02:00

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4.3.0
* fix failing importance recalculation command
* fix merging of linked names into unnamed boundaries
* fix a number of corner cases with interpolation splitting resulting in
invalid geometries
* fix failure in website generation when password contains curly brackets
* fix broken use of ST_Project in PostGIS 3.4
* new NOMINATIM_SEARCH_WITHIN_COUNTRIES setting to restrict reverse lookups
to known countries (thanks @alfmarcua)
* allow negative OSM IDs (thanks @alfmarcua)
* disallow import of Tiger data in a frozen DB
* avoid UPDATE to change settings to be compatible with r/o DBs (thanks @t-tomek)
* update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.9.2
* reorganise osm2pgsql flex style and make it the default
* exclude names ending in :wikipedia from indexing
* no longer accept comma as a list separator in name tags
* process forward dependencies on update to catch updates in geometries
of ways and relations
* fix handling of isolated silent letters during transliteration
* no longer assign postcodes to large linear features like rivers
* introduce nominatim.paths module for finding data and libraries
* documentation layout changed to material theme
* new documentation section for library
* various smaller fixes to existing documentation
(thanks @woodpeck, @bloom256, @biswajit-k)
* updates to vagrant install scripts, drop support for Ubunut 18
(thanks @n-timofeev)
* removed obsolete configuration variables from env.defaults
* add script for generating a taginfo description (thanks @biswajit-k)
* modernize Python code around BDD test and add testing of Python frontend
* lots of new BDD tests for API output
4.2.3
* fix deletion handling for 'nominatim add-data'
* adapt place_force_delete() to new deletion handling
* flex style: avoid dropping of postcode areas
* fix update errors on address interpolation handling
4.2.2
* extend flex-style library to fully support all default styles
* fix handling of Hebrew aleph
* do not assign postcodes to rivers
* fix string matching in PHP code
* update osm2pgsql (various updates to flex)
* fix slow query when deleting places on update
* fix CLI details query
* fix recalculation of importance values
* fix polygon simplification in reverse results
* add class/type information to reverse geocodejson result
* minor improvements to default tokenizer configuration
* various smaller fixes to documentation
4.2.1
* fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
4.2.0
* add experimental support for osm2pgsql flex style
* introduce secondary importance value to be retrieved from a raster data file
(currently still unused, to replace address importance, thanks to @tareqpi)
* add new report tool `nominatim admin --collect-os-info`
(thanks @micahcochran, @tareqpi)
* reorganise index to improve lookup performance and size
* run index creation after import in parallel
* run ANALYZE more selectively to speed up continuation of indexing
* fix crash on update when addr:interpolation receives an illegal value
* fix minimum number of retrieved results to be at least 10
* fix search for combinations of special term + name (e.g Hotel Bellevue)
* do not return interpolations without a parent street on reverse search
* improve invalidation of linked places on updates
* fix address parsing for interpolation lines
* make sure socket timeouts are respected during replication
(working around a bug in some versions of pyosmium)
* update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.7.1
* add support for PostgreSQL 15
* typing fixes to work with latest type annotations from typeshed
* smaller improvements to documentation (thanks to @mausch)
4.1.1
* fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
4.1.0
* switch to ICU tokenizer as default
* add housenumber normalization and support optional spaces during search
* add postcode format checking and support optional spaces during search
* add function for cleaning housenumbers in word table
* add updates/deletion of country names imported from OSM
* linked places no longer overwrite names from a place permanently
* move default country name configuration into yaml file (thanks @tareqpi)
* more compact layout for interpolation and TIGER tables
* introduce mutations to ICU tokenizer (used for German umlauts)
* support reinitializing a full project directory with refresh --website
* fix various issues with linked places on updates
* add support for external sanitizers and token analyzers
* add CLI commands for forced indexing
* add CLI command for version report
* add offline import mode
* change geocodejson to return a feature class in the 'type' field
* add ISO3166-2 to address output (thanks @I70l0teN4ik)
* improve parsing and matching of addr: tags
* support relations as street members of associatedStreet
* better ranking for address results from TIGER data
* adapt rank classification to changed tag usage in OSM
* update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.6.0
* add typing information to Python code
* improve unit test coverage
* reorganise and speed up code for BDD tests, drop support for scenes
* move PHP unit tests to PHP 9.5
* extensive typo fixes in documentation (thanks @woodpeck,@StephanGeorg,
@amandasaurus, @nslxndr, @stefkiourk, @Luflosi, @kianmeng)
* drop official support for installation on CentOS
* add installation instructions for Ubuntu 22.04
* add support for PHP8
* add setup instructions for updates and systemd
* drop support for PostgreSQL 9.5
4.0.2
* fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
4.0.1
* fix initialisation error in replication script
* ICU tokenizer: avoid any special characters in word tokens
* better error message when API php script does not exist
* fix quoting of house numbers in SQL queries
* small fixes and improvements in search query parsing
* add documentation for moving the database to a different machine
4.0.0
* refactor name token computation and introduce ICU tokenizer
* name processing now happens in the indexer outside the DB
* reorganizes abbreviation handling and moves it to the indexing phases
* adds preprocessing of names
* add country-specific ranking for Spain, Slovakia
* partially switch to using SP-GIST indexes
* better updating of dependent addresses for name changes in streets
* remove unused/broken tables for external housenumbers
* move external postcodes to CSV format and no longer save them in tables
(adds support for postcodes for arbitrary countries)
* remove postcode helper entries from placex (thanks @AntoJvlt)
* change required format for TIGER data to CSV
* move configuration of default languages from wiki into config file
* expect customized configuration files in project directory by default
* disable search API for reverse-only import (thanks @darkshredder)
* port most of maintenance/import code to Python and remove PHP utils
* add catch-up mode for replication
* add updating of special phrases (thanks @AntoJvlt)
* add support for special phrases in CSV files (thanks @AntoJvlt)
* switch to case-independent matching between place and boundary names
* remove disabling of reverse query parsing
* minor tweaks to search algorithm to avoid more false positives
* major overhaul of the administrator and developer documentation
* add security disclosure policy
* add testing of installation scripts via CI
* drop support for Python < 3.6 and Postgresql < 9.5
3.7.3
* fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
3.7.2
* fix database check for reverse-only imports
* do not error out in status API result when import date is missing
* add array_key_last function for PHP < 7.3 (thanks to @woodpeck)
* fix more url when server name is unknown (thanks to @mogita)
* commit changes to replication log table
3.7.1
* fix smaller issues with special phrases import (thanks @AntoJvlt)
* add index to speed up continued indexing during import
* fix index on location_property_tiger(parent_place_id) (thanks @changpingc)
* make sure Python code is backward-compatible with Python 3.5
* various documentation fixes
3.7.0
* switch to dotenv for configuration file
* introduce 'make install' (reorganising most of the code)
* introduce nominatim tool as replacement for various php scripts
* introduce project directories and allow multiple installations from same build
* clean up BDD tests: drop nose, reorganise step code
* simplify test database for API BDD tests and autoinstall database
* port most of the code for command-line tools to Python
(thanks to @darkshredder and @AntoJvlt)
* add tests for all tooling
* replace pyosmium-get-changes with custom internal implementation using
pyosmium
* improve search for queries with housenumber and partial terms
* add database versioning
* use jinja2 for preprocessing SQL files
* introduce automatic migrations
* reverse fix preference of interpolations over housenumbers
* parallelize indexing of postcodes
* add non-key indexes to speed up housenumber + street searches
* switch housenumber field in placex to save transliterated names
3.6.0
* add full support for searching by and displaying of addr:* tags
* improve address output for large-area objects
* better use of country names from OSM data for search and display
* better debug output for reverse call
* add support for addr:place links without an place equivalent in OSM
* improve finding postcodes with normalisation artefacts
* batch object to index for rank 30, avoiding a wrap-around of transaction
IDs in PostgreSQL
* introduce dynamic address rank computation for administrative boundaries
depending on linked objects and their place in the admin level hierarchy
* add country-specific address ranking for Indonesia, Russia, Belgium and
the Netherlands (thanks @hendrikmoree)
* make sure wikidata/wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
* make POIs searchable by name and housenumber (thanks @joy-yyd)
* reverse geocoding now ignores places without an address rank (rivers etc.)
* installation of a webserver is no longer mandatory, for development
use the php internal webserver via 'make serve
* reduce the influence of place nodes in addresses
* drop support for the unspecific is_in tag
* various minor tweaks to supplied styles
* move HTML web frontend into its own project
* move scripts for processing external data sources into separate directories
* introduce separate configuration for website (thanks @krahulreddy)
* update documentation, in particular, clean up development docs
* update osm2pgsql to 1.4.0
3.5.2
* ensure that wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
* reinstate verbosity for indexing during updates
* make house number reappear in display name on named POIs
* introduce batch processing in indexer to avoid transaction ID overrun
* increase splitting for large geometries to improve indexing speed
* remove deprecated get_magic_quotes_gpc() function
* make sure that all postcodes have an entry in word and are thus searchable
* remove use of ST_Covers in conjunction woth ST_Intersects,
causes bad query planning and slow updates in Postgis3
* update osm2pgsql
3.5.1
* disable jit and parallel processing in PostgreSQL for osm2pgsql
* update libosmium to 2.15.6 (fixes an issue with processing hanging
on large multipolygons)
3.5.0
* structured select on HTML search page
* new PHP Nominatim\Shell class to wrap shell escaping
* remove polygon parameter from all API calls
* improve handling of postcode areas
* reorganise place linking algorithm, now using wikidata tag as well
* remove linkees from search_name and larger_area tables
* introduce country-specific address ranks
* reorganise rank address computation
* cleanup of partition function
* improve parenting for large POIs
* add support for Postgresql 12 and Postgis 3
* add earlier cleanup when --drop is given, to reduce memory usage
* remove use of place_id in URLs
* replace C nominatim indexer with a simpler Python implementation
* split up the huge sql/functions.sql file
* move osm2pgsql tests to osm2pgsql
* add new extratags style which imports all tags from OSM
* add new script for checking the import after completion
* update osm2pgsql, reducing memory usage
* use new wikipedia importance and add processing of wikidata tags
* add search form for details page
* use ExtraDataPath for country_grid table
* remove short_name from list of names to be displayed
* split up CMakeFile, so that all parts can be built separately
* update installation instructions for CentOS and Ubuntu
* add script for importing/updating multiple country extracts
* various documentation improvements
3.4.2
* fix security bug in /details endpoint where user input was not
properly sanitized
3.4.1
* update osm2pgsql to fix hans during updates and lost address numbers
during updates
3.4.0
* increase required version for PostgreSQL(9.3), PostGIS(2.2) and PHP(7.0)
* better error reporting for out-of-memory errors
* exclude postcode ranges separated by colon from centre point calculation
* update osm2pgsql, better handling of imports without flatnode file
* switch to more efficient algorithm for word set computation
* use only boundries for country and state parts of addresses
* improve updates of addresses with housenumbers and interpolations
* remove country from place_addressline table and use country_code instead
* optimise indexes on search_name partition tables
* improve searching of attached streets for large objects like airports
* drop support for python 2
* new scripts for importing Wikidata for importance
* create and drop indexes concurrently to not clash with auto vacuum
* various documentation improvements
3.3.0
* zoom 17 in reverse now zooms in on minor streets
* fix use of postcode relations in address
* support for housenumber 0 on interpolations
* replace database abstraction DB with PDO and switch to using exceptions
* exclude line features at rank 30 from reverse geocoding
* remove self-reference and country from place_addressline
* make json output more readable (less escaping)
* update conversion scripts for postcodes
* scripts in utils/ are no longer executable (always use scripts in build dir)
* remove Natural Earth country fallback (OSM is complete enough)
* make rank assignments configurable
* allow accept languages with underscore
* new reverse-only import mode (without search index table)
* rely on boundaries only for states and countries
* update osm2pgsql, now using a configurable style
* provide multiple import styles
* improve search when house number and postcodes are dropped
* overhaul of setup code
* add support for PHPUnit 6
* update test database
* various documentation improvements
3.2.0
* complete rewrite of reverse search algorithm
* add new geojson and geocodejson output formats
* add simple export script to exprot addresses to CSV
* remove is_in terms from address computation
* remove unused search_name_country tables
* various smaller fixes to query parsing
* convert Tokens and token types to class types
* correctly handle update when boundary object type is changed
* improve debug output for /search endpoint
* update to latest osm2pgsql and leaflet.js
* overhaul of /details endpoint:
* new class parameter when using osmtype/osmid parameters
* permalink to instance-independent osmtype/osmid parameter format
* new json output format
* update CentOS vagrant machine to use SELinux
* add vagrant scripts for Ubuntu 18.04
* fix build process for BSD
* enable running the database on a different host than the setup scripts
* allow to configure use of custom PHP binaries (PHP_BIN)
* extensive coding style improvements to PHP code
* more PHP unit tests for new classes
* increase coverage for API tests
* add documentation for API
3.1.0
* rework postcode handling and introduce location_postcode table
* make setup less verbose and print a summary in the end
* setup: error out when web site user does not exist
* add more API tests to complete code coverage
* reinstate key-value amenity search (special term [key=value])
* fix detection of coordinates in query
* various smaller tweaks to ranking of search interpretations
* complete overhaul of PHP frontend code using OOP
* add address rank to details page
* update Tiger scripts for 2017 data and clean up unused code
* various bug fixes and improvements to UI
* improve reverse geocoding performance close to coasts
* more PHP style cleanup (quoting)
* allow unnamed road in reverse geocoding to avoid too far off results
* add function to recalculate counts for full-word search term
* add function to check if new updates are available
* update documentation and switch to mkdocs for generating HTML
3.0.1
* fix bug in geometry building algorithm in osm2pgsql
* fix typos in build instructions
3.0.0
* move to cmake build system
* various fixes to HTML output
* reverse endpoint now can return geometries
* add support for PHP7
* move to on-the-fly computation of interpolations
* improve handling of linked places (updating)
* improve test framework:
* replace lettuce with behave
* use smaller database for API tests
* drop support for postgres < 9.1, postgis < 2.0 and PHP < 5.4
* make external data use optional (useful for imports without US)
* detect postgres and postgis versions automatically
* clean up query logging and remove unused tables
* move installation documentation into this repo
* add self-documenting vagrant scripts
* remove --create-website, recommend to use website directory in build
* add accessor functions for URL parameters and improve erro checking
* remove IP blocking and rate-limiting code
* enable CI via travis
* reformatting for more consistent coding style
* make country search term creation part of setup
* update country names and country grid
* handle roads that cross boundaries better
* keep full information on address tags
* update to refactored osm2pgsql which use libosmium based types
* switch from osmosis to pyosmium for updates
* be more strict when matching against special search terms
* handle postcode entries with mutliple values correctly
2.5
* reverse geocoding includes looking up housenumbers from Tiger data
* added parameter to return simplified geometries
* new lookup call for getting address information for OSM objects
* new namedetails and extratags parameters that expose the name and extratags
fields of the placex table
* mobile website
* reverse web view
2.4
* drop support for postgres 8.4
* rewrite address interpolation
* switch to C++ version of osm2pgsql and rewrite tag filtering
* support for bridge:name and tunnel:name, man_made, junction
* drop way-node index (reduces database size by about 15%)
* add support for configuring tablespaces and webserver user
* better evaluation of search queries in right-to-left notation
* improve house number search for streets with many duplicate entries
* code cleanup (remove unused functions and tables)
2.3
* further improve ordering of results
* support for more lat/lon formats in search-as-reverse
* fix handling of GB postcodes
* new functional test suite
* support for waterway relations
* inherit postcodes from street to poi
* fix housenumber normalisation to find non-latin house numbers
* take viewbox into account for ordering of results
* pois may now inherit address tags from surrounding buildings
* improve what objects may participate in an address
* clean up handled class/type combinations to current OSM usage
* lots of bug fixes
2.2
* correct database rights for www-data
* add timestamps for update output
* load postgis via extension for postgis >= 2.0
* remove non-admin boundaries from addresses
* further improve ordering of results with same importance
* merge addr:postcode tags into object addresses
* include rank and importance in reverse geocode output
* replace ST_Line_Interpolate_Point with ST_LineInterpolatePoint
(for postgis >= 2.1)
* update osm2pgsql to latest version
* properly detect changes of admin_level
* remove landuses when name is removed
* smaller fixes
2.1
* update to openlayers 2.12 (now custom built)
* update fallback OSM boundaries
* add support for postgresql 9.2/9.3 and postgis 2.x
* add structured queries
* add options for polygon output in various formats
(geojson, svg, kml, postgis text)
* maintenance functions for deleting objects and updating regions
(plcae_force_update/place_force_delete)
* web view for polygons that need deleting
* rate limiting using memcache
* improve layout of details page
* add support for boundary:postal_code
* full CORS support
* improve parenting of POIs
* support for extract daily diffs from Geofabrik
* support for addresses without a street
(addr:place and conscription number house numbers)
* improve layout of word and search_name_* tables
* support for US ZIP+4 codes
* refactoring of front-end PHP code
* lots of smaller bug fixes
2.0.1
* delete outdated entries from location_area_country
* remove remaining uses of INTEGER, to allow node ids larger than 2^31