nominatim Installation, clients require internet connection?

[funksen]

first of all hi to all, since this is my first post

I’m not sure if this is the right forum

I installed nominatim 2.3.1 with postgres 9.4 and apache webserver as described in this article:

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

imported the OSM maps from Austria,

everything works perfectly and super fast, but then I tried other countries I hadn’t imported, and still it works?

I shut down my client pc internet connection, and nothing worked, not even the imported map from austria, just grey squares
the webserver performs queries in the database, I checked this, no error messages

so am I required to have an internet connection, and is it possible to turn that off?

thanks in advance

funksen

[woodpeck (Frederik Ramm)]

Nominatim is not a map server but a geocoding server. The map you see always comes from the server - unless you install a tile server too!

[funksen]

thanks a lot for the quick answer, honestly I wondered where the image rendering takes place in nominatim

[gormo]

I try to get your wording straight so you can communicate more effectively in the OSM ecosystem in the future. Please ignore this post if it sounds too pedantic.

@funksen

imported the OSM maps from Austria,

You imported OSM data (or “an OSM dump”), not “maps”. Maps are images of something. You didn’t import an image to your database

@funksen

everything works perfectly and super fast, but then I tried other countries I hadn’t imported, and still it works?

There may be confusion on what exactly “works”, and how.

What you mean (probably) is that you both can view a map and can geocode addresses.

@funksen

I shut down my client pc internet connection, and nothing worked, not even the imported map from austria, just grey squares

“nothing works” may be a misunderstanding: you do not see a map, because map tiles are not accessible, because you have no internet connection. But the geocoding part of nominatim should still work.