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Special Phrases

Special Phrases are common nouns or phrases that can be used in a search to identify a class of places.
Those are keywords that cause Nominatim to search for a specific key=value pair present in the OSM entity.

Special Phrases Options​

Examples​

Request in English
<VECTOR-NOMINATIM_URL>/search.php?format=jsonv2'&
q=school in tel aviv
Request in Hebrew
<VECTOR-NOMINATIM_URL>/search.php?format=jsonv2'&
q=בית ספר בתוך תל אביב
Response in jsonv2 format
[
  {
      "place_id": 371349364,
      "licence": "Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://osm.org/copyright",
      "osm_type": "way",
      "osm_id": 405360284,
      "lat": "32.0866755",
      "lon": "34.78522392879019",
      "category": "amenity",
      "type": "school",
      "place_rank": 30,
      "importance": 0.3996636286275556,
      "addresstype": "amenity",
      "name": "גימנסיה הרצליה",
      "display_name": "גימנסיה הרצליה, דוד רמז, הצפון החדש - סביבת ככר המדינה, תל אביב - יפו, הצפון החדש, תל אביב-יפו, נפת תל אביב, מחוז תל אביב, 6296802, ישראל",
      "boundingbox": [
          "32.0860104",
          "32.0875880",
          "34.7843618",
          "34.7860641"
      ]
  },
  {
      "place_id": 371344929,
      "licence": "Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://osm.org/copyright",
      "osm_type": "way",
      "osm_id": 140917803,
      "lat": "32.09302495",
      "lon": "34.79094265017193",
      "category": "amenity",
      "type": "school",
      "place_rank": 30,
      "importance": 0.23859140675544002,
      "addresstype": "amenity",
      "name": "בית ספר עירוני ד'",
      "display_name": "בית ספר עירוני ד', רב צעיר, הצפון החדש - החלק הצפוני, תל אביב - יפו, הצפון החדש, תל אביב-יפו, נפת תל אביב, מחוז תל אביב, 6230231, ישראל",
      "boundingbox": [
          "32.0922268",
          "32.0938329",
          "34.7906316",
          "34.7912568"
      ]
  }
]