Address and place search with detailed results and reverse geocoding, based on OpenStreetMap, for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. No sign-up, no API key.
https://nominatim.dresel.systems/search?q=Fürth&format=jsonv2
This server is a free service for everyone: no sign-up, no ads, no cookies. The start page is only counted anonymously (see the privacy notice). OpenStreetMap thrives because people share knowledge and infrastructure. Servers, storage and electricity cost money, though, and maintenance takes time. If you find the service useful, even a small contribution helps me keep it running, permanently and open to all.
The result appears here.
| Call | Description |
|---|---|
/search?q=…&format=jsonv2 | Free-text search. Parameters: limit (default 10), accept-language (e.g. de, en), countrycodes=de,at,ch, addressdetails=1 (address parts), viewbox=minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat (with bounded=1 only there), layer=address|poi|railway|natural|manmade. Alternatively structured: street, city, postalcode, country. |
/reverse?lat=…&lon=…&format=jsonv2 | Address/place for a coordinate. Parameters: zoom (level of detail 0–18), addressdetails, accept-language. |
/lookup?osm_ids=N…,W…,R… | Addresses for known OSM objects (node, way, relation). |
/details?osmtype=…&osmid=… | All stored details of an object (debug view, JSON with format=json). |
/status?format=json | Operating status and data date as JSON. |
The default format is XML; use format=jsonv2 or geojson for JSON (GeoJSON coordinates are [lon, lat]). All parameters: Nominatim API documentation.
curl "https://nominatim.dresel.systems/search?q=Marienplatz+M%C3%BCnchen&format=jsonv2&limit=3&accept-language=en" curl "https://nominatim.dresel.systems/reverse?lat=48.2086&lon=16.3725&format=jsonv2&accept-language=en"
The server is run privately on limited resources. Please send at most approx. 2 requests per second and a meaningful user agent or referrer. Nominatim is not an autocomplete search: please do not build search-as-you-type on it; use Photon for that. Please do not use this service for bulk geocoding. There is no availability guarantee; commercial use is possible, but without any assurance. I reserve the right to block abusive use.
© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the ODbL. Anyone displaying or storing results credits OpenStreetMap as the source. The Nominatim software (GPL 2.0) is developed by the Nominatim project, the data extract comes from Geofabrik.