Generating addresses the way Nominatim does

General talk
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I am using a PostGIS database and I want to do reverse lookups for coordinates and get addresses in order (house, street… country in an ordered list). Nominatim already does so.

How do I generate the address for a given node/coordinates?

Also, I inferred that I must find “closed ways” the node/coordinate is a part of. How does Nominatim do that? And how do I do that myself?

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I’ve never done it, but the wiki does contain installation instructions for Nominatim:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation