Traccar reverse geocoding service
Missing API key
What is the correct format for the georeferencing request?
The documentation is here:
https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder?tab=readme-ov-file#get-reverse
Invalid API key
Is there another API key besides the one in my user account?
Which user account? You have to use the one you created in the service.
If I'm self-hosting, do I still need a service key?
Yes. From your own service.
It works perfectly
Oh great! Thanks Anton, I have just deployed nominatim few days ago, I will check this
is this correct in traccar xml.
<entry key='geocoder.type'>nominatim</entry>
<entry key='geocoder.url'>http://localhost:3000/reverse?key=myapi_key_generated</entry>
@jay i believe it should be
<entry key='geocoder.enable'>true</entry>
<entry key='geocoder.type'>nominatim</entry>
<entry key='geocoder.url'>http://localhost:3000/reverse</entry>
<entry key='geocoder.key'>myapi_key_generated</entry>
<entry key='geocoder.onRequest'>false</entry>
<entry key='geocoder.ignorePositions'>false</entry>
<entry key='geocoder.reuseDistance'>10</entry>
you can check documentation page Reverse Geocoding
Thank you hypoclone. working like a charm
It seems that for the Netherlands, we do not have a country and country_code, for example
lat=52.3731&lon=4.8929
{
"display_name": "Dam 2, Amsterdam",
"address": {
"house_number": "2",
"road": "Dam",
"city": "Amsterdam",
"state": "Noord-Holland"
}
}
Did you use a country extract or the whole planet?
I used for 3 countries, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, only for Netherlands is missing.
{
"display_name": "Spandauer Straße 4, 10178, Deutschland",
"address": {
"house_number": "4",
"road": "Spandauer Straße",
"state": "Berlin",
"postcode": "10178",
"country": "Deutschland",
"country_code": "DE"
}
}
{
"display_name": "Marszałkowska 94/98, Warszawa, Polska",
"address": {
"house_number": "94/98",
"road": "Marszałkowska",
"city": "Warszawa",
"state": "województwo mazowieckie",
"county": "Warszawa",
"country": "Polska",
"country_code": "PL"
}
}
Already downloaded: netherlands-latest.osm.pbf
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4882441 street ways
35384377 address points (19742905 from buildings)
99 interpolation ways
74223 admin/postcode boundaries (78724 polygon rings)
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geo index: 15219137 cells (4882441 ways, 35384377 addrs, 99 interps)
admin index: 10841 cells, 78724 polygons
strings.bin: 13379475 bytes
Done.
Index built.
Starting server...
Loading index from /data/index...
Starting HTTP server on 0.0.0.0:3000...
We're excited to introduce Traccar Geocoder - a hyper-optimized reverse geocoding service.
As always, it's fully open source and easy to self-host:
It is 100–1000x more efficient than Nominatim, with a full Earth index of just 18 GB. A single country's dataset is small enough to run on a small VPS - or alongside your existing Traccar server.
We also offer hosted plans that we believe are the most competitively priced on the market:
If you know of a cheaper alternative, we'd love to hear about it - and we're happy to revisit our pricing accordingly.