[OSM-talk] photon

[Christoph Lingg | komoot]

> Easy setup? The previous version required nominatim. What about the current one?

nominatim is not needed (unless you need continuous updates). We provide indexed search data to download, so you only need to execute a bunch of commands, the only requirement is java.


> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Christoph Lingg | komoot
> <christoph at komoot.de> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> we want to let you know that we have just released version 0.1 of photon. It is a geocoder based upon elasticsearch, features we provide already are:
>> 
>> - Typeahead suggestion
>> - Fast responses
>> - Scalability
>> - Multilingual
>> - Typo tolerance
>> - Minutely up to date OSM data
>> - Easy setup
>> 
>> There are prepared dumps available, which makes it very simple to setup your own instance. But we provide also a public API available on our product page: http://photon.komoot.de . More technical information is available on our github page: https://github.com/komoot/photon
>> 
>> Give it a try and let us know what you think about it!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
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