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WorldHistoricalGazetteer / whgazetteer

World Historical Gazetteer platform
http://whgazetteer.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Publish a dump of the index #46

Open azaroth42 opened 3 years ago

azaroth42 commented 3 years ago

With hundreds of thousands of places, an online lookup will use a lot of bandwidth and take a long, long time. If all that I need to do is look up identifiers, this can be done very quickly using a basic hash, rather than needing a solr/elastic full text or postgis spatial index. No need to do this online, if a dump of the index could be provided.

kgeographer commented 2 years ago

Sorry for the delayed response. I know you might not have an immediate concern or use case now, 1 year later, but we are now better gathering and organizing issues and I want to better understand this one. You say elastic full text is not needed but a dump of the index would be helpful. What would the dump contain? Thanks.