- -baseurl url
-
The base URL of the Nominatim service. Default value is
OpenStreetMap's service at http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search
A possible free alternative is at http://open.mapquestapi.com//nominatim/v1/search
- -callback cmdprefix
-
A command prefix to be invoked when search result become
available. The default setting, active when nothing was specified
on object creation, is to print the result (see
below) to stdout. The result of the command
prefix is ignored. Errors thrown by the command prefix are caught
and cause the invokation of the error callback (see option -error below), with the error message as
argument.
The signature of the command prefix is:
- $cmdprefix result
-
The result is a list of dictionaries,
containing one item per hit. Each dictionary will have the
following entries:
- place_id
-
The place ID (FIXME: what's this?)
- licence
-
The data licence string
- osm_type
-
The OSM type of the location
- osm_id
-
FIXME
- boundingbox
-
The coordinates of the bounding box (min and max latitude, min
and max longitude)
- lat
-
The location's latitude
- lon
-
The location's longitude
- display_name
-
the location's human readable name
- class
-
FIXME
- type
-
FIXME
- icon
-
FIXME
- -error cmdprefix
-
A command prefix to be invoked when encountering errors.
Typically these are HTTP errors. The default setting, active when
nothing was specified on object creation, is to print the errorstring (see below) to stderr.
The result of the command prefix is ignored. Errors thrown by the
command prefix are passed to higher levels.
The signature of the command prefix is:
- $cmdprefix errorstring