nominatim-docker/README.md

# Nominatim Docker
1. Build
  ```
  docker build -t nominatim .
  ```
2. Copy <your_country>.osm.pbf to a local directory (i.e. /home/docker-volumes/nominatimdata)

3. Initialize Nominatim Database
  ```
  docker run -t -v /home/docker-volumes/nominatimdata:/data nominatim  sh /app/init.sh /data/merged.osm.pbf postgresdata 4
  ```
  Where 4 is the number of threads to use during import, set this according to the host.  
  You can delete the `/home/docker-volumes/nominatimdata/merged.osm.pbf` once the import is finished.

4. After the import is finished the `/home/docker-volumes/nominatimdata/postgresdata` folder will contain the full postgress binaries of a postgis/nominatim database.  
Start the nominatim as a single node is the following:
   ```
   docker run --restart=always -p 7070:8080 -d -v /home/docker-volumes/nominatimdata/postgresdata:/var/lib/postgresql/9.5/main nominatim sh /app/start.sh
   ```

At this stage all database files are stored on the host and the containers are considered disposable.