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I'm trying to get WKT polygons of cities and countries from Nominatim (for example, Paris and France). I send a GET request but it returns me several results named "Paris". How may I narrow results only to the capital. Here's my request url:

http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/fr/paris?format=json&polygon_geojson=1

And I get an array of 10 objects, only one is the capital,

class: "boundary", type: "administrative".

The rest are:

class: "place", type: "isolated_dwelling"
class: "place", type: "hamlet",
class: "place", type: "neighbourhood"
and so on...

How to select only the desired city and only the desired country ignoring rest of results?

asked 08 Nov '13, 16:10

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There's probably no guaranteed way to do this but several things that can help:

  • Limit the number of results to one by adding &limit=1 (example)
  • Request only certain feature types by adding &featuretype=city (example)
  • Request only cities named "Paris" in a country named "France" by using as structured query: search?city=Paris (example)
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answered 09 Nov '13, 15:01

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edited 09 Nov '13, 15:03

Apparently the featuretype parameter was removed https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/1938

(16 Sep '22, 05:22) cyberixae
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