[Photon] Considering Photon for production

[Alex de Oliveira]

-AO

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:00:17PM -0300, Alex de Oliveira wrote:
> > 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.
>
> photon is currently maintained by Peter from Graphopper and me. We
> do aim to keep it running, provide regular extracts and look after
> issues and PRs. However, we have both very little time at the moment
> to spend on active development and very much welcome external
> contributions. So while you'll certainly will find older open
> issues which have been dormant for a long time, the PRs are
> generally addressed.
>

Nice.

> 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.
>
> This is fixed in the recent 0.3.0 release. photon.komoot.de is simply not
> running the latest version yet. Christoph from komoot may know more.
> If you want to evaluate I strongly recommend that you get the latest
> extract and try it out locally.
>

Sounds good.


> > - FEATURE: being able to return everything around a lat/lon without
> > specifying a query e.g /api?lon=10&lat=52
>
> We'd have to look at the specific use case to understand what to do
> exactly here. You can open a feature requests where we can scope out
> the feature and figure out what would be acceptable as a PR but
> eventually you would very likely need to find resources to do the
> actual implemention.
>

1. Where would be best to open a feature request? Github or here?
2. Once we have a good idea of what needs to be done for that feature, I'll
outline a plan and present to my boss to analyze possibilities (sponsorship
etc).

I hope that helps a bit for your evaluation.
>

Absolutely.


> Sarah
>
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