[Photon] Creating Photon search database without Nominatim

[Sarah Hoffmann]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Caleb Troyer via Photon wrote:
> We're looking to slim down the process of generating a geocoder database
> for Photon. One of those possibilities we're exploring is to remove
> Nominatim from the process, and create a (custom) OSM-based search index
> directly from OSM data. Is there any way to do this?

Nominatim is there to do the heavy lifting to preprocess the OSM
data to be suitable for geocoding. Photon is only a search fronend
based on that preprocessed data. If you want to remove Nominatim,
you have to reimplement that preprocessing on your own.

Kind regards

Sarah