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Nominatim v5 Re-import project
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2026-07-13 complete

Nominatim v5 Re-import

Spun off from the fleet-patch-audit (2026-06-19). Completed 2026-06-23 as a standalone maintenance window.

Deployed 2026-06-23

Nominatim was upgraded from v4.5 → v5.3.2 on recon-vm (VM 1130). This was a full fresh re-import; no in-place upgrade path exists between 4.x and 5.x due to data model changes.

What shipped

Parameter Value
Container name nominatim-v5
Image mediagis/nominatim:5.3.2
Port 8010 (mapped from container :8080)
Coverage Western-11 US states (see below)
PG version 16
IMPORT_STYLE full
FREEZE true
OSM data date 2026-06-21
pgdata path /mnt/nav/nominatim-v5/postgres-data/pgdata
DB size (post-import) ~29 GB
Restart policy --restart unless-stopped + systemd unit /etc/systemd/system/nominatim.service (targets nominatim-v5)

Western-11 coverage: arizona, california, colorado, idaho, montana, nevada, new-mexico, oregon, utah, washington, wyoming. Outside these states the service returns only country-level ("United States") fallback — this was also the case for v4.5; coverage did not change.

Build artifact (retained on pi-nas):

  • Tarball: pi-nas:/export/data/nav/nominatim-staging/western-us-11states-v5.3.2-pgdata.tar.gz
  • SHA-256 prefix: cc0f0497
  • BUILD-INFO.txt co-located with tarball
  • Built on matt-desktop (~3h41m, 14 threads) from a 3.13 GB merged PBF

Old v4.5 cleanup (2026-06-23)

The prior v4.5 container, its ~26 GB DB, and the mediagis/nominatim:4.5 image were removed after cutover validation. /mnt/nav has ~70 GB free post-cleanup.

Coverage clarification

The v4.5 deployment was also western-11 only — this was not always clearly documented. The v5 upgrade was a like-for-like data freshness + engine refresh, not a coverage expansion.

Photon — not coupled this upgrade

Photon was left at v1.1.0 (port 2322) and was not touched. Photon is independent: it runs from a komoot dump, not built from the Nominatim DB. No version coupling applied for this data refresh. The prior doc note about mandatory Photon 1.2.0 co-upgrade was based on an assumption that Photon reads Nominatim's internal tables directly — that does not apply here.

Full-US expansion (future option, not done)

Full-US coverage is the next natural scope expansion but requires significant resources that are not currently available.

Requirements

Resource Estimate
Final DB size ~120 GB+ (likely 150250 GB — dense eastern address data)
Peak build disk ~350600 GB (scratch + output)
RAM during build 4864 GB
Build time ~1524 h

Blockers

  1. recon-vm /mnt/nav disk: ~70 GB free — insufficient for a full-US build or DB. Would require either reclaiming existing storage or relocating the volume.
  2. matt-desktop build-disk capacity: the gating number for build scratch space is unconfirmed. Must be established before committing to a full-US build.

Until both blockers are resolved, full-US is deferred.

Context

Nominatim v5 (released February 2025) changed the underlying data model relative to 4.x. A full OSM re-import is required; there is no in-place upgrade path.