Search by City only?

[RyanAtViceSoftware]

Hi,

We are trying to use the API to do a search by city for data that is entered for job applicants in a "Location" free text field. We are currently getting Druso, TX when we try and geocode "Houston, Texas, United States". Droso, TX is in Houston county in Texas. Is there a way to have the search API only search for Cities? We are self hosting and calling with the Python API as shown below

    geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent="EnergyHire", scheme='http', domain='localhost8080')
    try:
        location = geolocator.geocode(city_name)

[mtmail]

Is that the GeoPy library? Instead of string you can also supply a dict where you can set the city, state, country. https://geopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#geopy.geocoders.Nominatim.geocode

You can test that https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html?city=houston&state=tx when clicking the 'Structured' tab.

[lonvia]

The search for 'Houston, Texas, United States' works fine on nominatim.openstreetmap.org. This might indicate that there is a setup issue with your own installation. I recommend you do a bit of digging, what is going wrong here. What is the output for the details for Druso (https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?osmtype=N&osmid=151491189&class=place&addressdetails=1&format=json) and Huston (https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?osmtype=R&osmid=2688911&class=boundary&addressdetails=1&format=json) on your server?