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--- nominatim [2022/04/18 18:53] – Frank Nestel
+++ nominatim [2024/09/27 16:23] (current) – google105661541109472601976
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 ====== OpenStreetMap and Nominatim ======
-[[https://www.badge-r-s.de/|The location based game Badge(r)s]] relies on a political structure of the world to determine [[rules:regions|played regions]], we rely on  [[https://www.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetmap data]] via the [[https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/|Nominatim Services]].
+[[https://www.badge-r-s.de/|The location based game Badge(r)s]] relies on a political structure of the **world** and it's **countries** (below find clickable coats of arms of //played countries//) to determine [[rules:regions|played regions]], we rely on  [[https://www.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetmap data]] via the [[https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/|Nominatim Services]].
 This is a **great** free and public service and another sample what open source and crowd sourcing can accomplish. We consume their service but we make sure to play fair, i.e. throttle request frequency, cache the retrieved results etc. Beyond the requirements they state, we also shift of our badged update requests preferably to less busy times like (European) night and weekend.
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+{{url>/iFrameCountries.php 32%,777 noscroll noborder left|Played Countries}}
 We truly recommend these systems. However there are issues, we have to cope with. We mention them here, not to talk bad about OSM and Nominatim, but to document chances and boundaries of such services. Note that in preliminary experiments Nominatim was more reliable than Google Maps for Badgers purposes.