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How HN took it
10 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.37.
Pricing: 3 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Remote index with range requests is a clever way to cut cost
From 1 comment
I’m a Range request fan-boy, so thanks for sharing. Byte-indexing static objects is basically a brilliant point of light in the dark universe of code. I have fixed dozens of…
mlhpdx on HN
Impressive achievement and good writeup
From 3 comments
This is super cool to read about! Geocoding is one of those _hard_ problems and this really seems like a great step forward.
hampelm on HNAmazing, thanks for the writeup and sharing
killingtime74 on HNWoah this is ridiculously good. You've done a good job here working off Pelias. I did find managing the Elasticsearch cluster for a production instance of Pelias hopelessly…
renewiltord on HN
Objections
Not ready for production use, only a demo
From 1 comment
There are ways to make it work on a budget, but with Nominatim you do need 64GB of physical memory at a minimum for the planet. Some of the other replies in this thread have…
ellenhp on HN
Brazilian address parsing returns poor results
From 1 comment
Congrats on the achievement. One trick part when working on "planet-scale" is parsing and matching the results for multiple countries. I tried some addresses in Brazil without…
mmaia on HN
Requests
Reverse geocoding support
From 1 comment
Can it reverse geocode as well? lat/long to address
nodesocket on HN
S3 support
From 1 comment
Does it have support for S3? I admit I am a bit lost with all the new search options: tantivy, quickwit, sonic, meilisearch, zinc, toshi, lnx... A lot have popped up,…
remram on HN
Better zoom on the demo map on mobile
From 1 comment
Is there any way to zoom on the demo map in mobile? I’ve enjoyed my brief dalliances with digital cartography. I’m grateful for a stack like this that I can explore.
macintux on HN
Questions
How does it compare to tantivy-based alternatives like Sonic or Quickwit
From 2 comments
The geocoder is built on top of tantivy which is fast and uses low resources too (https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy). I'm curious about the comparison between those two.
francoismassot on HNDoes it have support for S3? I admit I am a bit lost with all the new search options: tantivy, quickwit, sonic, meilisearch, zinc, toshi, lnx... A lot have popped up,…
remram on HN
How much do Nominatim and Pelias really cost to run
From 1 comment
Which geocoder is $100/mo? Nominatim? Which cloud? Either way this looks really cool and I’ll give it a try!
binarymax on HN
Alternatives named
Nominatim
From 1 comment
Which geocoder is $100/mo? Nominatim? Which cloud? Either way this looks really cool and I’ll give it a try!
binarymax on HN
Pelias
From 1 comment
I think I priced Nominatim on EC2 and it came in around $350/mo because you need 64GB of RAM. Also on EC2 Pelias ended up being close to $100/mo. Keep in mind that I'm including…
ellenhp on HN
Photon
From 1 comment
I'm hosting Photon geocoder from Komoot. I find it decently accurate and not too expensive to run
clementmas on HN
Sonic
From 1 comment
I don't know if it's fit your specific use case, but for pure search take a look to sonic (https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic). It's blazing fast and require very few…
lormayna on HN
Google Maps API
From 1 comment
Very cool. I went and had a look at the cost of using the Google maps api and this project seems like it would be pretty competitive with it.
Gigachad on HN