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Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

by alixaxel on 8/21/20, 11:34 AM with 7 comments

• by mushufasa on 8/21/20, 6:33 PM

  Awesome. I've been doing a bunch of geocoding recently and looked into self-hosting to get around the Nominatim (Open Street Map API) rate limit. In the past I used the datascience toolkit for this, which was awesome, but is no longer maintained. http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org. Nominatim also has self-host instructions https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation...

  I decided not to self-host after seeing the spec requirements for Nominatim (64gb ram!). Much more than the old DSTK.

  Looks like the specs to install this are much less, aboutt 8gb ram and tens of gb storage. Maybe i'll give it a try.

• by zimpenfish on 8/22/20, 6:34 AM

  Neat. I was going to moan that the boundary for Lewisham was far too wide but I double checked with Wikipedia and nope, it covers the extremities of Lewisham correctly.

• by PinguTS on 8/21/20, 7:47 PM

  Does not work for my address in Germany.

• by skratlo on 8/21/20, 9:24 PM

  More like super-coarse, I'm not sure how is this useful.