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> The reason I think Mapzen Mobile worked better than other apps was that it generally understood the ways in which users use OSM data, which largely ties into
by twic 6y ago
> The reason I think Mapzen Mobile worked better than other apps was that it generally understood the ways in which users use OSM data, which largely ties into the critiques I and others have around OSM's geolocation services. They're very Euro-centric- even in comparison to how a North American uses the same services.
Could you expand on this? When you say "ways in which users use OSM data", do you mean "ways in which American users use OSM data"? What is wrong with OSM's geolocation services? What even are OSM's geolocation services - i thought OSM was just a map! What doesn it mean for them to be Euro-centric?
- emacsen 6y ago> What is wrong with OSM's geolocation services? They come up with irrelevant results or no results at all. I talked about this in more detail in "Why OSM is in serious trouble". > What even are OSM's geolocation services - i thought OSM was just a map! OSM isn't a map, it's a geographic database. By OSM's geolocation services, I mean Nominatim. Pelias gave me better results but it's gone AFAIK. > What doesn it mean for them to be Euro-centric? People search for things differently in Europe than they do in the US. As a small example, I will regularly search for intersections, but I've been told Europeans don't often do that.
- juliansimioni 6y agoHi! Pelias core maintainer and former Mapen employee here. It is not gone :) After Mapzen shut down a co-worker and I founded Geocode Earth(https://geocode.earth/ https://geocode.earth/) to continue working on the Pelias project, funded by consulting and, primarily, a SaaS much like Mapzen Search. Over the past 3 years the project has improved quite a bit, and Geocode Earth has had solid growth (50% SaaS revenue in 2020). We've been fully bootstrapped this whole time and plan on continuing this well...indefinitely! In fact, intersection support is already present in Pelias and will be rolling out to Geocode Earth soon :)
- stewartmcgown 6y agoI'd be 100% down to use Pelias at our company if they had correct geocoding for UK street numbers. currenttly, including your house number before your street name causes Pelias not to return any results at all, when the street name alone returns at least the street name.
- pininja 6y agoIs there a recommended (maybe a plan or DIY method) for really small projects to use Geocode Earth and/or Pelias? What are the hardware requirements/cost for a basic deployment of Pelias?
- emacsen 6y agoGood to hear. Pelias was a welcome innovation in geolocation using OSM data.
- donatzsky 6y agoNot sure why, but scrolling performance on your website is abysmal in Firefox for Android. And tapping pricing plans doesn't even work.