# Brian Quinion (slim)

> Brian Quinion is author. Nominatim on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-quinion/index.md (~650 tokens) · this version ~430 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-quinion/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-quinion/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-06
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Author.

## What Brian builds

- [Nominatim](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nominatim.md), graded B, 63.5/100, in Maps, geocoding & places. Nominatim is open-source geocoding software that searches OpenStreetMap data by name and address and reverse geocodes coordinates. Operators self-host its HTTP API; the OpenStreetMap Foundation runs a free public instance under a strict usage policy. Author, researched 2026-11-06.

## Works with

- [Marc Tobias Metten](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marc-tobias-metten/), Author
- [Sarah Hoffmann](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sarah-hoffmann/), Lead maintainer, runs nominatim.org

## Questions

### Who is Brian Quinion?

Brian Quinion is author.

### What does Nominatim make?

Anchor Terminal lists Nominatim from Nominatim.

### How are Brian's tools graded?

Nominatim is graded B, 63.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/blob/master/AUTHORS
- https://nominatim.org/imprint/
- https://nominatim.org/
- https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/blob/master/SECURITY.md

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.