Request to Improve Recognition of Palestine In Nominatim/Geopy by updating Tags

[Aisha_Ruksana]

Hi OSM Community,

I’m working on a global migration animation using Python and Nominatim. While querying for “Palestine,” the geocoder fails unless we manually override coordinates. This happens because the region isn’t tagged the same way as other countries.

Suggestion: Please update the relation for Palestinian Territories (Relation: 1703811 | OpenStreetMap) with the following:
admin_level=2
place=country
ISO3166-1=PS
official_name=State of Palestine

These additions would help geocoding libraries (like geopy, Nominatim, etc.) resolve it just like any other country.

This isn’t a political request — it’s about ensuring consistency for open-source geospatial data consumers.

Thank you kindly for your work and support.

— Aisha Ruksana (Open Data Contributor)

[DwarfNebula]

@Aisha_Ruksana

Please update the relation for Palestinian Territories (Relation: 1703811 | OpenStreetMap)

Hi, this link doesn’t contain the relation for Palestine. I think you ment to link to below relation?

Relation: ‪Palestinian Territories‬ (‪1703814‬)

And for your information, did you already read the article about disputed territories?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputed_territories

Furthermore, I can’t help you with updating the territory.

[SomeoneElse (Andy Townsend)]

@Aisha_Ruksana

I’m working on a global migration animation using Python and Nominatim. While querying for “Palestine,” the geocoder fails unless we manually override coordinates.

If something still isn’t working for you I suspect that you’re going to need to provide a bit more information about exactly what you’re doing (sharing the code, saying what happens and what you would expect to happen). The relation that @DwarfNebula mentions is tagged broadly as you suggest, and when I search for it by name using Nominatim on the osm.org website, it is found.