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raphi··on Google Maps reverse geocoding API can be a thousand miles off
Author here: indeed :/ The quota on the API key is still OK but they blocked it. You can replaced the API key in the URL directly with your own to see the response.
raphi··on Google Maps reverse geocoding API can be a thousand miles off
Author here: nope it's not possible for address search to target all countries (but there is an option to add multiple countries if necessary). It's a take on our part to provide more relevant results to the end users. By default, the end user is pre-located via IP first and can change its country if necessary, which works well in most cases. There are so many matches possible for address search that it reduces the relevance of the top 5 results. Also, there is the option of world cities available (no constraint on countries but cities only).
raphi··on Building efficient Node.js Docker image
I thought it was once again an article on how to build NodeJS docker image... there are already thousands of them, BUT this one seems complete, great job! I'm always restarting from scratch because it's missing some tricks, some are too simple (HelloWorld kinda Dockerfile which is far from real world production) but your final image is neat. Maybe it's missing some example with ARG which is usually painful.

I'm curious though, why do you need to install `devDependencies` and other crap?

raphi··on Show HN: PlaceKit – Geocoding API and address autocomplete
Thanks @jerska!
raphi··on Show HN: PlaceKit – Geocoding API and address autocomplete
Oh nice, thank you!
raphi··on Show HN: PlaceKit – Geocoding API and address autocomplete
Thank you!! Yes, we do cover the entire world, checkout: https://placekit.io/terms/coverage. To be precise, we support 246 countries over 249 from the ISO-3166-1 list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1) for now. Improving the global coverage is a continuous effort and we'll add the remaining missing islands very soon!