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Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

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Re: Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

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Awesome. I've been doing a bunch of geocoding recently and looked into self-hosting to get around the Nominatim (Open Street Map API) rate limit. In the past I used the datascience toolkit for this, which was awesome, but is no longer maintained. http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org. Nominatim also has self-host instructions https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation...

I decided not to self-host after seeing the spec requirements for Nominatim (64gb ram!). Much more than the old DSTK.

Looks like the specs to install this are much less, aboutt 8gb ram and tens of gb storage. Maybe i'll give it a try.

Re: Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

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Awesome. I've been doing a bunch of geocoding recently and looked into self-hosting to get around the Nominatim (Open Street Map API) rate limit. In the past I used the datascience toolkit for this, which was awesome, but is no longer maintained. http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org . Nominatim also has self-host instructions https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation... I decided not to self-host afte…

You can get 64GB this with Hetzner for less than $100 a month I think if you need the higher level of precision.

Re: Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

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Awesome. I've been doing a bunch of geocoding recently and looked into self-hosting to get around the Nominatim (Open Street Map API) rate limit. In the past I used the datascience toolkit for this, which was awesome, but is no longer maintained. http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org . Nominatim also has self-host instructions https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation... I decided not to self-host afte…

You can get 64GB this with Hetzner for less than $100 a month I think if you need the higher level of precision.

For around $45 https://www.hetzner.com/sb?ram_from=9&ram_to=13

Re: Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

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Awesome. I've been doing a bunch of geocoding recently and looked into self-hosting to get around the Nominatim (Open Street Map API) rate limit. In the past I used the datascience toolkit for this, which was awesome, but is no longer maintained. http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org . Nominatim also has self-host instructions https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation... I decided not to self-host afte…

I can attest to pelias (the regular fullsize version of this) running quite well on a 16gb ram server, it was just one country but the server had many other services on it so it might work for you depends on your usecase I suppose.