NAME

map::geocode::nominatim - Resolving geographical names with a Nominatim service

Table Of Contents

• Table Of Contents

• Synopsis

• Description

• API

  • Options
  • Methods

• References

SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl 8.6 9
package require http
package require json
package require uri
package require snit
package require map::geocode::nominatim ?0.3?

::map::geocode::nominatim requestor ?-baseurl url? ?-callback callback? ?-error error callback?
$cmdprefix result
$cmdprefix errorstring
requestor search query

DESCRIPTION

This package provides a class for accessing geocoding services which implement the Nominatim interface (see References)

API

• ::map::geocode::nominatim requestor ?-baseurl url? ?-callback callback? ?-error error callback?

  Creates a geocoding request object requestor, which will send its requests to the Nominatim server.

  The result of the command is name.

Options

• -baseurl url

  The base URL of the Nominatim service. Default value is OpenStreetMap's service at http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search A possible free alternative is at http://open.mapquestapi.com//nominatim/v1/search

• -callback cmdprefix

  A command prefix to be invoked when search result become available. The default setting, active when nothing was specified on object creation, is to print the result (see below) to stdout. The result of the command prefix is ignored. Errors thrown by the command prefix are caught and cause the invokation of the error callback (see option -error below), with the error message as argument.

  The signature of the command prefix is:

  • $cmdprefix result

    The result is a list of dictionaries, containing one item per hit. Each dictionary will have the following entries:

    • place_id

      The place ID (FIXME: what's this?)

    • licence

      The data licence string

    • osm_type

      The OSM type of the location

    • osm_id

      FIXME

    • boundingbox

      The coordinates of the bounding box (min and max latitude, min and max longitude)

    • lat

      The location's latitude

    • lon

      The location's longitude

    • display_name

      the location's human readable name

    • class

      FIXME

    • type

      FIXME

    • icon

      FIXME

• -error cmdprefix

  A command prefix to be invoked when encountering errors. Typically these are HTTP errors. The default setting, active when nothing was specified on object creation, is to print the errorstring (see below) to stderr. The result of the command prefix is ignored. Errors thrown by the command prefix are passed to higher levels.

  The signature of the command prefix is:

  • $cmdprefix errorstring

Methods

• requestor search query

  This method returns a list of dictionaries, one item per hit for the specified query.

References

1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

2. http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/