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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2023 Stichting Bellingcat
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+# osm-search
+
+This is a tool for allowing user friendly proximity queries from OpenStreetMap data.
+
+Bellingcat has a hosted version of the tool at https://osm-search.bellingcat.com/. For more information, see [the accompanying article](https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2023/05/08/finding-geolocation-leads-with-bellingcats-openstreetmap-search-tool/).
+
+![A screenshot of the tool in use](https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2023/04/image5-3-1200x829.png)
+
+## Setup and hosting your own
+
+### Setting up the database
+
+A Postgres database must be set up with OSM data. This can be done with `osm2pgsql`. 
+
+`osm2pgsql -d osm --hstore-all planet-latest.osm.pbf`
+
+Next, some additional setup should be done on the database for performance and to create a combined view of all the data:
+
+```
+psql -d osm clean.sql
+psql -d osm cluster.sql
+psql -d osm index.sql
+psql -d osm analyze.sql
+psql -d osm views.sql
+```
+
+Note that if you run this using the entire planet OSM file, it will require about 700GB of space.
+
+### Running the API
+
+The API requires environment variables for connection with Postgres.
+
+- `PG_DB`
+- `PG_HOST`
+- `PG_PORT`
+- `PG_USER`
+- `PG_PASSWORD`
+
+### Running the frontend
+
+The frontend requires one environment variable, `VUE_ENV_MAPBOX_KEY` to be set. This Mapbox key is used for geocoding queries.