[Photon] Considering Photon for production

[Alex de Oliveira]

So, question. I'm installing it in an EC2 instance. We currently have our
Nominatim DB instance occupying 500Gb (UK-only). How much do you think I'd
need for Photon? What's the database/ElasticSearch ratio you have over
there?

-AO

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Alex de Oliveira <
alex.de.oliveira at transportapi.com> wrote:

> 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@
> 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/revers
>> e?lon=10&lat=52&limit=5
>>
>> If not, what are your specific requirements?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Holger
>>
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