Nominatim Locator Filter QGIS 4 compatibility

Nominatim is a free Geocoder service provided by the OpenStreetMap project. A Locator Filter implements the fetching of data from internal or external sources. NOTE that the core functionality of this plugin is now also in the core of QGIS using the <tt>&gt;</tt> prefix. So to use the core QGIS Nominatim Locator you type <tt>"> artis"</tt> to search for 'artis' This plugin has some extra features. Because it is *NOT* allowed to use the Nominatim service as a 'search as you type' service, see: <a href="https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/">Nominatim Usage Policy</a>, the locator will not fire a request unless you end your string with a space or enter. So type <tt>"osm artis "</tt> (note the ending space). Some other tricks: To do a local search (so only within current mapcanvas extent), use <tt>&</tt> in front of your search term. So type <tt>"osm &artis "</tt> (note the ampersand and the ending space) when only Zoomed in on France OR on The Netherlands and see the difference. Nominatim itself also has some tricks: for example you can add a country code to your search term to ONLY search in that country. See <tt>"osm &artis nl"</tt> versus <tt>"osm &artis fr"</tt> (to see artis in The Netherlands or in France) The icons used are from the <a href="https://github.com/osm-search/nominatim-ui/tree/master/dist/mapicons">nominatim-ui project</a> Read more about creating 'Locators': <a href="http://www.qgis.nl/2018/05/16/english-coding-a-qgslocator-plugin/?lang=en">http://www.qgis.nl/2018/05/16/english-coding-a-qgslocator-plugin</a>