[Photon] Search by osm_id? Is 900GB requirement still current?

[Sarah Hoffmann]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 01:37:42PM +0200, Seb J wrote:
> Dear photon users,
> 
> I have two unresolved questions which I couldn't find absolute confirmation
> about in the docs. Namely:
> - Is it possible to find one specific feature by `osm_id`? The lack of a
> mention of this makes me believe that it isn't possible, which for my
> scenario would mean I couldn't adopt Photon, sadly. Therefore, I hope to
> have gotten the wrong impression.

Photon has no such feature. The information is there but there
is not even a search index over the ID. So adding such a feature
is a rather a big undertaking and not likely to happen.

Nominatim has the \lookup endpoint for searching by OSM ID.

> - What are the current storage requirements for a full planet import? I see
> conflicting information, since the Nominatim website reports 130GB (though I
> might be misreading), while Photon's docs mention 900GB requirements. Could
> the requirement be even higher than the latter nowadays, due to old docs,
> and growing dataset?
> https://nominatim.org/2020/10/21/photon-country-extracts.html

The DB for photon.komoot.io needs 145GB as of today.

Sarah