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ellenhp / airmail

Lightweight geocoder in pure Rust
https://airmail.rs/
Apache License 2.0
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Indexing and serving documentation #3

Closed ellenhp closed 1 month ago

ellenhp commented 5 months ago

Right now there's no documentation for how to set up an instance, which is a bummer. I should fix that. :)

ellenhp commented 3 months ago

See also #18 :)

smari commented 2 months ago

Hi! Really like what you're doing here, and would love to get some of this documentation. In particular, it would be good to know both where to get the different data sets and what each of them does. I just balked at the 4TB download of WhosOnFirst Global data, but it's something I guess I can handle if it makes sense to do so.

ellenhp commented 2 months ago

You don't need to download the whole WOF database thankfully. I don't have that much storage lying around anyway :) The relevant downloads are here:

https://geocode.earth/data/whosonfirst/combined/ (you want the spatialite download for administrative boundaries, 11gb)

and

https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ (70ish gb)

Thank you for the nudges to write docs for this. I'll try and do that soon. I don't like creating abandonware.

smari commented 2 months ago

Wow! Thanks for the fast response and good info! Keep up the great work.

ellenhp commented 1 month ago

@smari I finally got around to adding docs! Feel free to open an issue if you have any trouble with them.

smari commented 1 month ago

Thank you! Will check!