[Photon] Photon API availability

[Gopi Aravind]

In case you're looking for a hosted option - our autocomplete api
<https://docs.locationiq.com/#autocomplete> over at LocationIQ offers photon
as an option and allows 5000 requests a day at no charge.
https://locationiq.com/
This is hosted in 3 regions with geo IP loadbalancing so you get high
availability & end users get low latency.

Output is in Nominatim compatible format - not photon - but we should be
able to get you raw photon output too.

- Gopi

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 1:36 PM Edward Hibbert <edward at ehibbert.org.uk>
wrote:

> I've self-hosted for years using the Docker image. It's been completely
> troublefree, to the extent that I've never had to touch it and can barely
> remember setting it up. I'm very grateful for the service.
>
> I would still consider switching to a paid service, just to reduce the
> list of what I have to manage.
>
> But I wouldn't do that if it was a one person outfit where the resulting
> service might also get overloaded by other users at times, or the person
> running it might get hit by a bus and the service collapse.
>
> I'm not criticising that approach - it's a useful offer which could work
> very well for some folk. But if you run a larger site then you'd need to be
> a bit careful.
>
> Edward
> Freegle
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