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Awesome. The one thing that is missing in the open source mapping community is a good geocoder. Once we have that, adoption will come in waves. At the moment,
by mck- 10y ago
Awesome. The one thing that is missing in the open source mapping community is a good geocoder.
Once we have that, adoption will come in waves. At the moment, nothing beats Google Maps, and their terms require you to use their maps.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoPelias [1], from Mapzen, is supposed to be good, if you can accept the dependency on Elasticsearch. Last I checked it wasn't great for autocompletion, and it lacked some important features that Google's has (the "bounds" attribute in the geocoding result, for example, which is super useful if you want to determine the precision of your match), but maybe it's improved since. [1] https://github.com/pelias/pelias https://github.com/pelias/pelias