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Ariadna – Opensource geocoder for OSM data

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What inspired you to start this project? There are numerous open source geocoders and the core problem isn't the software anyway, it's data. I'm often perplexed by people spending time building new things thinking they've uncovered/solved something when researching/talking with others who have domain experience would quickly reveal there may not be a there there.

I need to solve a few problems for my city: 1. Search crossroads 2. Search pair of lat/lon from non structured text 3. Possibility to add a custom data

And it was my inspiration to create yet another geocoder.

Love the itch scratching motive! Crossroads and intersections is a nice idea - they are used quite a lot in American cities, from casual observation "at the corner of Pine and Union".

I imagine in some countries with different addressing systems, road intersections may be a primary means of locating things.

The data issue is solved by the world turning green little by little: http://results.openaddresses.io

Not to forget OpenStreetMap and https://mapzen.com/blog/who-s-on-first/

I wonder how this compares to Pelias which supports autocomplete based on OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, GeoNames and Who's on First: http://pelias.io

In fact, one of them seems to have taken part of the other ones description and modified it slightly.

EDIT: Codebases appears to be entirely different though (Node.js vs Go)

I took a pelias README, because I had a low english skills when I've done it. BTW README needs to be updated and I think that I'll update it soon

That's understandable. I wouldn't worry about it other than that it made it superficially look like they were related.

What does this do that Nominatim[1] doesn't?

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

Good question.. Based on my experience with Nominatim I really, really hope the answer would be that it imports faster/uses less space (to be clear: I have no idea if it does - but imports and the sheer data volume have been my biggest pain point with Nominatim)

Ariadna can search crossroads :)

Nominatum does not support auto complete.

other: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines

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