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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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photon
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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?
pelias
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pelias VS photon - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 15 Nov 2023
- Has anyone got any information on how to retrieve all longitude and latitude data for each city in the UK (including Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)?
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Is there an OSM API endpoint to geocode an address and get back a lat + long?
https://pelias.io is another self hostable one. In my experience it performs better than nominatim
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Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers
The stack I describe in the post is only for map tiles - Map tiles are a good fit for CDNs because the input space is small (just Z/X/Y coordinates on a square grid) and thus very cacheable.
Geocoding is a very different problem because the input space - human language - is much, much larger, and answering queries quickly to support features like autocomplete really requires a server with hot data in memory.
One of my favorite projects in this space is Pelias https://pelias.io which is an open source auto-completing geocoder based on OSM plus other open data. It's backed by a great team that also runs a business: Geocode Earth https://geocode.earth
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Geocoding Addresses - Can this be done for free?
Pelias is a self-hostable option.
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Positionstack (by APILayer) Geocoding-API down for over 14 days, with no ETA
If anyone comes across this looking for an alternative, we can help at Geocode Earth (https://geocode.earth).
We're a small independent company that has been working on geocoding since 2013, first as part of Mapzen(https://mapzen.com), and then with our own self-funded business after Mapzen shut down at the start of 2018.
Our core software, the Pelias Geocoder (https://pelias.io) is open source, and ironically we understand it to be the primary geocoder in use by Positionstack.
We're biased of course, but we think that as the primary authors of the open source project, and with a high-volume service that has had _zero_ major outagee, we're a great option for anyone who needs forward or reverse geocoding, addresss parsing, place or address autocomplete, etc.
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Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap for free?
Here is why you should contribute to OSM even though there are major players profiting from it:
OSM is big enough and good enough that all the tech giants (except Google) would do better to start with OSM and improve it to meet their needs than to start a new, completely proprietary map from scratch.
That means that we are in an amazing place where in addition to the substantial volunteer OSM community, there are contributions from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and hundreds or thousands of smaller companies all coming back in to a single global map that everyone can use. It's very worth it to do work that strengthens OSM, as it increases the number of companies that will use it, and possibly contribute back, rather than doing work the world at large won't benefit from.
P.S. As a disclaimer, I am co-founder of Geocode Earth (https://geocode.earth) a small business that does indeed profit from OSM (and other open) data. We also contribute back both through OSM contributions and by releasing our core software as the Pelias geocoder (https://pelias.io)
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Why do many buildings and homes not have addresses assigned to them?
Pelias uses ElasticSearch to merge these data sets. Yes, it is too much data to stuff into OSM, but basic address information wouldn't bloat OSM too much, imho.
What are some alternatives?
Nominatim - Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data
planetiler - Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast
Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.
o.map - Open Street Map app - KaiOS
Acastus - A completely free and open source Address and POI lookup application for android.
StreetComplete - Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android
openrouteservice - 🌍 The open source route planner api with plenty of features.
Openstreetmap - The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
PMTiles - Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and raster maps
openmaptiles - OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation
qwantmaps - Central repository for Qwant Maps resources