Getting closest street/road given latitude longitude coordinate

I've set up my own instance of Nominatim. Trying to to create a reverse geocoding query for the closest road/street to a coordinate but not sure how to. I've used the "around" query when using the OSM API but unable to do so on my own instance of Nominatim.

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asked 22 Feb, 08:15

hellu
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Use /reverse which on our machine might be /nominatim/reverse or /nominatim/reverse.php and set the lat and lon parameters. Setting zoom to 16 will skip building and return streets. http://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/api/Reverse/

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answered 22 Feb, 11:39

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will try that thank you!

(27 Feb, 03:02) hellu

a follow up, im only looking for highway of type 'roads' and 'link roads' but this returns me 'pedestrian'. can I specify highway type?

(27 Feb, 04:08) hellu

highway=roads "If you do know the road type, do not use this value, instead use one of the more specific highway=* values." https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway Nominatim doesn't have tag filters in the reverse search. In the forwards search it would also only be able to filter one road type, not many.

(27 Feb, 10:51) mtmail

If you only care about specific highway tags, just filter out everything else before loading the data in to nominatim.

(27 Feb, 16:46) alester

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