[Photon] Considering Photon for production

[Alex de Oliveira]

Hello everyone,

I work at transportapi.com and we're considering replacing our Nominatim
instance with Photon. Before making a decision, I'd need more visibility
into the project possibilities so my company doesn't waste time.

Particularly, would the committers have time to review patches we could
potentially send? For instance, a Github issue that interests us
<https://github.com/komoot/photon/issues/198> is dead for 4 months now, so
I'm not sure any patch would be reviewed at all.

There are 2 things blocking us right now:

- BUG: being able to search something around a lat/lon.
https://github.com/komoot/photon/issues/198#issuecomment-381603866
describes it.
- FEATURE: being able to return everything around a lat/lon without
specifying a query e.g /api?lon=10&lat=52

Allocating budget/time to contribute with a fix ourselves and perhaps
sponsoring some of Photon work is a possibility (I need to get back to my
superior), but that particular Github issue is dead for 4 months now, so
I'm not sure any patch would be reviewed at all. Besides fixes, would new
features like the one above be accepted? We're looking for some
predictability, could project leaders help us with that?

Without that it's a no-go for us.

Thanks.

-AO
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