komoot/photon
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an open source geocoder for openstreetmap data
13 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2014-05-19 · latest 2025-08-08
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…in the OSM world, where most apps have a bad search experience where typos aren't handled. https://github.com/komoot/photon
comment by maelito · 2025-08-08 · in How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB -
…utilizing RAM. Nominatim also doesn't support any sort of typeahead queries. There's Photon( https://github.com/komoot/photon ), which works in concert with Nominatim and is similarly tied to OSM as a data source. There's also Pelias(…
comment by juliansimioni · 2025-04-23 · in Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use -
The killer host-it-yourself component which mostly flies under the radar is Photon: https://github.com/komoot/photon I'm simplifying slightly, but it's essentially OSM's Nominatim geocoder data with a ready-to-download db, autocomplete…
comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2025-04-23 · in Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use -
…https://docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/ https://geocode.earth/ https://github.com/komoot/photon https://nominatim.org/ https://pelias.io/ https://www.here.com/platform/geocoding https://developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/
comment by ellenhp · 2024-02-17 · in Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo -
Like https://github.com/komoot/photon/ or https://github.com/pelias/pelias ?
comment by karussell · 2022-11-02 · in TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem -
…the whole world so I could run it on my phone, but it's certainly realistic to run on my laptop. https://github.com/komoot/photon
comment by peterburkimsher · 2020-11-18 · in Openstreetmap is having a moment -
…* https://opencagedata.com/ * http://www.thunderforest.com/ If you're willing to self-host: * https://github.com/komoot/photon * https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/mas...
comment by 43920 · 2018-09-30 · in Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps? -
…uses Nominatim: https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim The photon link uses Photon: https://github.com/komoot/photon Nominatim processes OSM data, associating items of interest with features like town boundaries that enclose the item,…
comment by maxerickson · 2018-08-30 · in How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap -
…of (SSD) storage and decent CPU. I have a £10/month Hetzner VM just to do geocoding (with Photon: https://github.com/komoot/photon ) so you aren't going to get a tileserver for half that - and that's no surprise; OSM is ultimately…
comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2018-07-15 · in Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps? -
…but probably the easiest out-of-the-box solution is openmaptiles.org. * Geocoding: Photon ( https://github.com/komoot/photon ) is the easiest to set up because it comes with precompiled indexes - no need to generate your own. Based on…
comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2018-05-03 · in Google Maps Platform -
…specifically about on device apps, Photon needs a pretty big index (31 gigabytes compressed): https://github.com/komoot/photon
comment by maxerickson · 2015-10-20 · in OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo -
…here are two open-source geocoders released in the last few months: Photon, made by Komoot: https://github.com/komoot/photon , used in production at http://www.komoot.de/suggest/?&hl=en Pelias, made by Mapzen:…
comment by Brakenshire · 2014-05-19 · in OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready