The Namefinder has nothing to do with Gosmore (or routing). The clientside javascript calls Nominatim through a proxy script on the server (because of cross site security constraints). The proxy script is named transport.php and it uses CURL to relay the namefinding request to Nominatim and output Nominatim’s answer to the client.

So, if this process is not working the this could be caused by a missing CURL PHP library. So if you don’t have this plugin then that would be the first thing to fix.

If you still have problems then please use Firefox and the firebug plugin to check:

  • If you see any namefinder requests from the client to transport.php?
  • What transport.php answer is on a request?