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Nominatim Locator Filter

Plugin ID: 1447

This is a plugin which adds an (extra) Nominatim Locator Filter (Geocoder) to QGIS

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Nominatim is a free Geocoder service provided by the OpenStreetMap project.

A Locator Filter implements the fetching of data from internal or external sources.

NOTE that the core functionality of this plugin is now also in the core of QGIS using the <tt>&gt;</tt> prefix.
So to use the core QGIS Nominatim Locator you type <tt>"> artis"</tt> to search for 'artis'

This plugin has some extra features.

Because it is *NOT* allowed to use the Nominatim service as a 'search as you type' service,
see: <a href="https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/">Nominatim Usage Policy</a>, the locator will not fire a request unless you end your string with a space or enter.
So type <tt>"osm artis "</tt> (note the ending space).

Some other tricks:

To do a local search (so only within current mapcanvas extent), use <tt>&</tt> in front of your search term.
So type <tt>"osm &artis "</tt> (note the ampersand and the ending space) when only Zoomed in on France OR on The Netherlands and see the difference.

Nominatim itself also has some tricks: for example you can add a country code to your search term to ONLY search in that country.
See <tt>"osm &artis nl"</tt> versus <tt>"osm &artis fr"</tt> (to see artis in The Netherlands or in France)

The icons used are from the <a href="https://github.com/osm-search/nominatim-ui/tree/master/dist/mapicons">nominatim-ui project</a>

Read more about creating 'Locators': <a href="http://www.qgis.nl/2018/05/16/english-coding-a-qgslocator-plugin/?lang=en">http://www.qgis.nl/2018/05/16/english-coding-a-qgslocator-plugin</a>

Version QGIS >= QGIS <= Date
0.3.2 - 3.0.0 3.99.0 18690 rduivenvoorde 2023-12-18T11:42:07.475312+00:00
0.3.1 - 3.0.0 3.99.0 423 rduivenvoorde 2023-12-18T10:46:19.092101+00:00
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0.2.3 - 3.0.0 3.99.0 16656 rduivenvoorde 2018-11-28T17:28:59.275284+00:00
0.2.2 - 3.0.0 3.99.0 2713 rduivenvoorde 2018-05-18T07:00:27.044058+00:00
0.2.1 3.0.0 3.99.0 1601 rduivenvoorde 2018-05-02T10:16:56.029463+00:00
0.2.0 3.0.0 3.99.0 721 rduivenvoorde 2018-04-22T20:32:30.034671+00:00

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