- -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