Photon Deep Dive: Search That Forgives
Nominatim is great until your users typo. Photon adds OpenSearch-backed fuzzy geocoding on top of OSM data, here's when to deploy both, side by side.
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Nominatim vs Photon vs Pelias
Three self-hosted geocoders, very different tradeoffs. Pick Nominatim, Photon, or Pelias for your project without spending a weekend benchmarking.
Nominatim Diff Replication
Imported OSM data goes stale fast. Run pyosmium and Nominatim's diff replication pipeline so your geocoder stays accurate without re-importing planet.
osm2pgsql Tuning for Modest Hardware
Stop watching osm2pgsql crawl. Tune flex output, slim mode, --cache, and Postgres for OSM imports on hardware that isn't a hyperscaler.
OSM Imports: Planet vs Regional
Don't download 88GB of planet.osm if you only need one country. Comparing Geofabrik, BBBike, and osmium-extract for clean, sane OSM imports.
Nominatim: Self-Hosted Geocoding
Stop paying the geocoding tax. Self-host Nominatim on Docker with an OpenStreetMap regional extract and own your address lookups end to end.
PostGIS for Self-Hosted Mapping
Self-host map tiles with PostGIS. Import OSM data, query spatial data, serve tiles via Martin. No Google Maps tax.