photon
an open source geocoder for openstreetmap data (by komoot)
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Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine (by elastic)
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| photon | Elasticsearch | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 91 | |
| 1,769 | 67,391 | |
| 2.0% | 0.9% | |
| 8.4 | 10.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
photon
Posts with mentions or reviews of photon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-15.
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pelias VS photon - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 15 Nov 2023
Photon by Komoot is also using Elasticsearch for validating addresses and locations.
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Autocomplete address from google places and mapbox seem to be extremely expensive. Is there any other good alternatives?
Alternatively, you could run your own Photon API: https://github.com/komoot/photon
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The New GraphHopper Maps Route Planner
Open Source. The routing server is open source too and geocoding too.
- What is the easiest way to deploy OSM on the premise? like nominatim.openstreetmap.org, but offline version.
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GraphHopper Routing Engine - Open Source Route Planning
To fully self-host a route planner (e.g. a "Google Maps" equivalent) you need GraphHopper for the routing and two other parts: you also need some visualization aka "maps" (e.g. with OpenMapTiles) and you need the address search (e.g. with Photon).
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Question about privacy with Waze vs GMaps
There exists photon, but I don't know if it's used in any libre mapping app.
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PSA: Use Acastus-Photon for better search for maps apps like OsmAnd
Acastus-Photon is an Android app that allows you to search up any address or point of interest on OpenStreetMaps and open it in OsmAnd or any other maps app. It relies on photon as it's open-source backend server (provides elasticsearch for OSM), so you can either use a public instance or self-host. This allows you to have search functionality as powerful as Google Maps whilst being able to use solely open-source software instead.
- OsmAnd~ address finding is terrible, copy and pasting lat and long is inconvenient, any alternatives that also respect your privacy?
Elasticsearch
Posts with mentions or reviews of Elasticsearch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-18.
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Elasticsearch Version 9
You could check out their GitHub and see what is going on https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues
- One .gitignore to rule them all
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Who's hiring developer advocates? (October 2023)
Link to GitHub -->
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Do we think about vector dbs wrong?
I believe the 1024 limit has been upped in recent versions of Elasticsearch
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Elasticsearch VS openobserve - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 30 Aug 2023
- A dedicated Elasticsearch query language (ES|QL)
- Fleet datastreams: custom index templates
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Integrating Elasticsearch with Node.js Applications
Elasticsearch is written in Java and its source code is available on Github.
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Murmur3 hash plugin for nested objects?
I don't think the murmur3 hash implementation has changed since it was added as the default in version 2.0 (see the [changes](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commits/main/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/routing/Murmur3HashFunction.java)). The plugin itself has seen [more changes](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commits/main/plugins/mapper-murmur3) but that's IMO because of internals and not visible changes in the calculations.
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Mongo or Mysql for 10tb of JSON documents, I'm questioning my previous choice.
Mysql is not as open source as postgres (long story). And you can see how open elasticsearch is by just having access to the bugs database https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issue
What are some alternatives?
When comparing photon and Elasticsearch you can also consider the following projects:
Nominatim - Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data
OpenSearch - 🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
pelias - Pelias is a modular open-source geocoder using Elasticsearch.
Apache Superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/superset]
Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.
bleve - A modern text/numeric/geo-spatial/vector indexing library for go
Acastus - A completely free and open source Address and POI lookup application for android.
pgvector - Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
openrouteservice - 🌍 The open source route planner api with plenty of features.
Whoosh
openmaptiles - OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation
MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow