[Photon] Considering Photon for production

[Alex de Oliveira]

Hi Holger,

Thanks for asking, but we don't need reverse lookup. In fact, I think that
now that 0.3.0 fixes the lat/lon bias, it could be that it solves my
problem.

We use Nominatim and allow users to search for something (e.g Waterloo
station) within a bounding box. The majority of our clients are using their
mobile phones, so they need to search for things within their screens.

Although Photon doesn't support that, it's possible that 0.3.0 will give me
good results with lat/lon bias, which I can then apply a bounding box
myself to filter out what I don't need. In our case, it's useless to search
for Boise, Idaho, while close to that lat/lon, but get results from Bois,
France (link
<https://github.com/komoot/photon/issues/198#issuecomment-381603866>). In
fact, if you're looking at Boise on your mobile phone, you absolutely don't
want results from France.

I will wait for 0.3.0 to be deployed to komoot, test it and then see if I
need further assistance. I think 0.3.0 should work.

Thanks a lot.



-AO

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Holger Bruch <
holger.bruch at mitfahrdezentrale.de> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> Am 25.04.2018 um 17:00 schrieb 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
>
> Are you looking for the already existing reverse lookup of addresses by
> coordinates, like e.g. http://photon.komoot.de/
> reverse?lon=10&lat=52&limit=5
>
> If not, what are your specific requirements?
>
> Best regards,
> Holger
>
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