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Doesn't sound like it, but it's a nice writeup of the tools they stitched together. For someone to copy and open source... hopefully :)
by pbowyer 1y ago
Doesn't sound like it, but it's a nice writeup of the tools they stitched together. For someone to copy and open source... hopefully :)
- cicloid 1y agoTempted, specially for switching H3 instead of S2… I prototyped a similar solution a couple of weeks ago, so I could probably do a second pass
- ellenhp 1y agoWhat's wrong with S2? H3 is so much more complex for very little gain from what I can tell.
- ellenhp 1y agoThere are a few piece of this that rely on proprietary data, especially the FastText training step, so that's a dead-end unfortunately (would love to be proven wrong). I'd consider subbing in a small bert model with a classifier head for something FOSS without access to tons of user data, but then you lose the ability to serve high qps.
- mips_avatar 1y agoI guess not having that would only breaking forward geocoding from an address?
- ellenhp 1y agoMy guess is that they're using FastText for semantic search, so it's more likely to break queries like "coffee near me" than address search, the latter likely being handled by tantivy. For context, I've also written a geocoder [0] based on tantivy. :) [0] https://github.com/ellenhp/airmail https://github.com/ellenhp/airmail
- mips_avatar 1y agoWow Airmail looks awesome. Have you ever benchmarked it on latency? I'm working on geocoding solutions for AI agents so quick tool calls is really important.