Photon

Photon is a geolocation search engine built on an open source and scalable search infrastructure. Using OpenStreetMap data, it offers features such as multilingual search, typo tolerance, location priority, and reverse geographic encoding. Java requires 21 and can be run as a database with embedded system or OpenSearch 3.x.

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VERSIONv0.1
UPDATED3 days ago
geocodingopenstreetmapelasticsearchMapsApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Esri ArcGIS, Google Maps Platform, Mapbox

What can it do?
  • Using OpenStreetMap data, you make spelling error-tolerant and multilingual address searches
  • You convert geographic coordinates to open address with reverse encoding
  • Filter search results with border box or OSM tags
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Introducing the Photon

    “"The Spark (Core) on the other hand is much like an Arduino in that you have it in your presence to code its behavior, and then release it to the wild. Slightly different target apps, hugely different user experience." The Core default firmware gives you an instant cloud API to…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Introducing the Photon

    “Suggestion - put in some social sharing meta tags. It literally takes two minutes. Here's a quickie to make it semi presentable on facebook ``` <meta property="og:title" content="Introducing the Photon IoT Toolkit"> <meta property="og:image" content=" <meta…”

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