For a few projects, I wanted to do bulk geocoding. I didn't want to abuse the OSM servers; I didn't want to pay 50 cents per 1,000 requests on Google; and, I wanted to learn basic Docker. This project is a solution to all three problems.
git clone https://github.com/jbn/dockerized-nominatim.git
cd dockerized-nominatim
# Get your extract locally. In case there is a problem,
# it's more polite than downloading it a few times.
wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/monaco-latest.osm.pbf
docker build --build-arg PBF=monaco-latest.osm.pbf -t nominatim-monaco .docker run --rm -it -p 8080:80 nominatim-monaco
docker-machine ip # => IP address if using docker-machine
google-chrome http://docker-ip:8080/nominatim/Then, see the API for mechanical queries.
I am not a devops guy. Surely, there are better solutions. I based this code partially off of nominatim-docker. If that image doesn't work for you, use this one. But, I'd probably try that one first.