Peter Johnson

Based on the changes in fixture diff in this PR it appears to be positive, although I can understand some hesitation. I've generated a much larger diff [for the whole...

Public transit stops are actually quite tricky, this is what Nominatim returns for "S+U Potsdamer Platz" And what Pelias autocomplete returns (we do a good job of deduping down from...

This would fit well in to the new 'sources' API we have planned, which will list all 'layers' within the source as well as things like licence information and the...

Last night I went into a deep-dive on [tuning the BM25 algorithm](https://www.elastic.co/blog/practical-bm25-part-2-the-bm25-algorithm-and-its-variables), I suspect that we could reduce `k1` to either 0 or near 0 to resolve this issue. It's...

We currently only have population information for administratrative areas such as cities and states, the field doesn't really make sense for other layers.

The `popularity` field is more appropriate for venues, streets etc.

@tadjik1 It depends on how it's implemented, a user in a rural area should still be able to find a local chain restaurant (eg. McDonalds) even if there are hundreds...

I would be interested in using `popularity` for streets, this is something other geocoders do, so if you type just 's' you get back the top 5 most trafficked roads...

I'm planning to come in to the Moovel office tomorrow so we can talk more then :)

I think this might need a bit more consideration for cases such as: - non-english speaking regions (ie. 'bahnhof') - names which are not just the locality name, as per...