[QGIS-Developer] Nominatim request throttling

pathmapper pathmapper at posteo.de
Sun Nov 20 22:21:10 PST 2022


Hi List,

currently the built in Nominatim locator/geocoder forces a 1,000ms wait 
in-between queries.

This was implemented to comply with the OSM Nominatim TOS because their 
endpoint https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search was used originally.

Since
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/42011
we are using our own Nominatim endpoint -> 
https://nominatim.qgis.org/search

Are we still bound to the OSM Nominatim TOS (e.g. the QGIS endpoint uses 
in fact the OSM endpoint) or do we need technically such request 
throttling also for our own endpoint?

If not, maybe we could reduce the delay in-between queries to improve 
UX.

Cheers,
Björn


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