service timed out

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We're receiving timeout errors this morning. Is the nominatim service down?

_call_geocoder raise GeocoderTimedOut('Service timed out') GeocoderTimedOut: Service timed out

Answer 1

The server is again having trouble with users over-using the service. Remember that we are running on volunteer-run machines with limited resources. So when you are seeing Service timed out errors, you can help greatly by stopping your scripts for a while until admins have taken measures to get the traffic under control.

Given that Python scripts are a significant contributor to the server issues, I'd like to remind everybody at this point that we have a usage policy. Among other things, you should be

sending a user agent other than Python-urllib and
limit your queries to 1 request per second.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could take a minute and check that your script fulfills these requirements.

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