Sarah Hoffmann

We can have `status` return a list of available endpoints in the json format. You can check if search is up and running from there. Would that be sufficient? I...

That would just open up the same problem you are reporting now for reverse only mode. Not exactly an improvement.

The check is the way it is because a missing search_name table causes internal server errors for the search endpoint. A configuration setting is less reliable for avoiding the internal...

Those cirrus-search dumps definitely look interesting. We'd need to figure out how to translate this into our importance scale but that should be doable.

I wonder if the new link tables have made this worse. With the most recent dump now I have a fail on "Siegen". previous dump had: * [Siegen(DE)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegen) 0.5824333406655886 *...

Please don't post on random issues. Open a [new discussion](https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/discussions) if you have questions.

Wouldn't a chef-managed file mean that the list is public or are you thinking about getting the list itself from somewhere else and just have chef apply it?

If I understand you explanation right, then removing this code means that instead of a zero-size bounding box, the code will work with a 360-degree-size bounding box. Isn't the actual...

Removing this code means we go from wrongly expiring nothing to expiring all tiles along the affected latitude. The first might be slightly annoying but obviously not enough that anybody...

In principle it is okay to include short_name. However, generally speaking, I wonder if we wouldn't want start making alternative names to be included configurable.