Sarah Hoffmann

I'm a bit torn on this one. I believe that photon comes as a single executable jars is one of it strong points. Download data file, download jar and you...

It does deliver a death blow to the bundled version, though, because we can't relicense Photon under SSPL without major pains.

Given Elastic's general behaviour, I'd be rather careful with anything that bundles Photon closer with ES than necessary.

> its 47,000+ lines Do you mean the file emitted by `./utils/specialphrases.php --wiki-import`? That is not meant to be human readable, it's meant to be readable by Postgresql. So CSV...

`./utils/specialphrases.php` downloads them from the [OSM wiki](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special_Phrases).

So the catch with this approach is actually the index creation itself. So far we would create a helper index over `placex(class, type)` which would make the creation of the...

I've played with this in https://github.com/lonvia/Nominatim/tree/remove-special-classtype-tables-II. The most promising approach to replace the classtype tables is a unified index over the centroid column that includes the type in the index....

All these examples boil down to the fact that Photon should be better at ignoring unknown parts. For the Frankfurt and Sydney addresses the exact house numbers are missing from...

It's relatively high on the list but I need to find time to dig more into this. Paid work gets priority for obvious reasons.

Welcome @amanbora. To get started, I recommend focusing on one of the object types on the list. Postcodes is a very good one. The first step is always to set...